RE: [Nolug] a place for politics

Joey,
Did the original Idea of your vote page really work?
Is this the outcome you expected?
Did I screw it up?

:P

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net
> [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net] On Behalf Of Ron Johnson
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 2:25 PM
> To: NOLUG ML
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] a place for politics
>
>
> On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 13:52 -0500, Brad Bendily wrote:
> > > Aha.....
> > > So the first one I sort of guessed, all the others are
> complete strangers.
> > > I did not know thre were that many candidates for only
> two parties.
> [snip]
> > money you have. That's why Ross Perot got his name out
> > there and almost had a chance. He got 6% of the vote I think.
> > So he was probably the person who came the closest to being
> > president just under the leading republican and democrat.
>
> Perot got 19% in 1992 and 8.4% in 1996.
>
> IMO, he's why Clinton got in both times. Note that Clinton *never*
> got 50% of the vote, and GWB got 3,000,000 *more* of the popular
> vote than Clinton ever did.
>
> Yes, yes, Nader did the same thing to Gore in Y2K...
>
http://www.presidentelect.org/e1992.html
http://www.presidentelect.org/e1996.html
http://www.presidentelect.org/e2000.html

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