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Originally Posted by Jerrek
Hey, Perot did it in 1992, why can't Nader do it in 2004?
William Clinton, Albert Gore Jr. (Democratic) 44,909,806 [43.01%]
George Bush J., Danforth Quayle (Republican) 39,104,550 [37.45%]
H. Ross Perot, James Stockdale (Independent) 19,743,821 [18.91%]
Guess what? If even only 30% of Perot voters voted for Bush, Clinton wouldn't have made it.
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Interesting. I didn't realise that the Perot vote was so decisive in '92.
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Originally Posted by Jerrek
PS I don't get your arguing over the Murdoch owned source of the article. Strip the opinion out of it and take the raw polling data.
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Heh, I just like to moan about anything Murdoch owned
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Originally Posted by Jerrek
A little off topic... Here's is the history of the voting in the United States.
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Very interesting.
I knew Mondale did badly - but not that badly!
Getting back to this election....
I found this interesting:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internatio...263301,00.html
(past the stuff about Hillary Clinton being invited to speak at the Democrat Convention)
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As in the 2000 election, the Republican party that appears on stage in New York will be considerably to the left of the party's core supporters.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California, George Pataki, the governor of New York, and Rudolph Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, have been given prominent speaking times, but they represent the party's abortion rights minority. Senator John McCain, another speaker, has an anti-abortion voting record, but is a centrist maverick who has frequently clashed with the party's Christian conservatives.
The protest letter, signed by 127 House Republicans, asked the president to give Henry Hyde, a veteran in the congressional fight against abortion, an opportunity to speak.
Late yesterday afternoon there had been no response from the Bush campaign.
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Trying to increase their chances of swing-voters or more moderate voters choosing Bush, I assume. [no need to pander to the core supporters as much, as they'll obviously vote Bush anyway]
I guess the Democrats have done similar, though.