----- Original Message ----- From: "JDG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 3:08 PM Subject: Re: brin: My big salvo
> At 02:37 PM 10/11/2004 -0500 Dan Minette wrote: > >> So? Bush got a higher percentage than Clinton did in 1992..... > > > >The point is that he got less than Gore did in 2000. More people wanted > >Clinton than wanted either Bush or Perot. Fewer people wanted Bush than > >wanted Gore. > > And the point is,a higher percentage of Americans were happy with the > outcome of the 2000 elections than the 1992 elections. If Perot were a far right wing politician, like Nader is far left wing, you might have had a point. But, he wasn't. He was a maverick centralist "a plague on both your houses" option. I remember vividly the polls at the time that show him getting roughly a third of the votes before he dropped out for a while (in June I think), and Clinton and Bush I being roughly equal after he dropped out. Nader voters in 2000, on the other hand, condemned Gore for being too much like Bush II. Even so, if Bush II got more votes than Gore, but less than Gore+Nader, I would have groused at the Nader voters, not the system. The point is Bush II got fewer voters than Gore, but won because the natural bias of the electoral college favors the Republicans...at least according to your analysis. :-) BTW, the population of DC is higher than Wyoming. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
