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02-15-2011, 03:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Ryzorian View Post
The real problem is that 50% of the voteing public even votes. So technically it would only be 25% of the available voteing public voted for Bush or Gore. Plus that's less that the general public because not everyone is registered to vote or old enough to. So maybe you have a combined 40% of the total population that voted for either.

Stats are allways problamatic anyway. Like Mark Twain said, " There are two kinds of Liars, poloticians and stataticians. The two generally work together too.
Close, it works out to 37% of all Americans participated in the 2000 election. And then about 47% of those folks voted for Bush.

This is why I never associate a population directly with it's political leadership.
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