From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Thu 28 Nov 2002 - 03:24:30 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:
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> http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/electoral_college/popular_vot
> e_2000.html
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Indeed the combination of the Buchanan butterfly ballot mix-up and the
Nader vote cost Gore Florida's electoral votes and the presidency. And
I speak as a Florida resident, one who was exceedingly close to the
transpiration of events.
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