Re: Why Europe is so Contrary

From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu 28 Nov 2002 - 03:17:03 GMT

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    >From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com>
    >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >Subject: Re: Why Europe is so Contrary
    >Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 22:10:12 -0500
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    >>From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
    >>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >>Subject: Re: Why Europe is so Contrary
    >>Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:40:59 -0500
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    >>On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 06:26 , Scott Chase wrote:
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    >>>With help from Nader, I assume.
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    >>Nope. Gore lost it all by himself. Pushing Ralph in front of that is a
    >>piss-poor excuse, not that people won't make it.
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    >>And the trend to losing continued into the last election, where, again, it
    >>wasn't that the republicans won, but the democrats just didn't really show
    >>up.
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    >>The exception, as always, was here in Massachusetts, where there are
    >>hardly _any_ republicans _to_ show up, and the majority of the candidates
    >>elected actually run _unopposed_. (The reason I am registered republican
    >>in this state is not because of some itching political allegiance, but
    >>because I like fairness and equilibrium in all things, because I come from
    >>a strong two-party state, and was shocked at the state of compliance and
    >>apathy here. Then again, as Will Rogers would sort of say, 'it's easy to
    >>belong to no organized party- register as a Democrat'. I side with the
    >>underdog party here, not with any ideology represented, if there really is
    >>one. And, registering within one party in no way demands that I vote for
    >>the candidates of that party. In fact, I have only voted for the person
    >>who actually won two times. Oh well....)
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    >1. Over half a million more people voted for Gore than Bush. Gore won the
    >popularity contest.
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    >2.In Florida Nader got 97,488 votes. Add these to Gore's total and we come
    >up with 3,009,741 votes. Buchanan got 17,484 votes. Add this to Bush's
    >total and we get 2,930,274 votes. Cut Nader's share in half and add it to
    >Gore's total and we still get 2,960,997 votes. With Bush getting all of
    >Buchanan's votes Gore still takes Florida.
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    >I guess I should play around with the other states and see what happens.
    >I'm sure Bush played well with all the corn states. Ready to get
    >"Footloose" with our "faith based" initiatives?
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    I based the above on figures abstracted from:

    http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/electoral_college/popular_vote_2000.html

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