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Originally Posted by MMM
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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Although, in the same way that you can take a sampling of a population on any survey and use that to represent the whole within a certain margin of error, elections can be the same. In fact most surveys have so many fewer counts than elections.
So it's relatively safe to say that the remaining 63% of Americans might have voted along similar lines as the first 37% and 47% plus or minus a few percent of them would have also voted for Bush.
In this case it would seem like Bush shouldn't have won, so it's not accurate to say that most of America supported him, perhaps "nearly half" would be better, but how about the 2004 elections?