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[David Minton <dminton AT mindspring.com>]

I thing I am getting tired of reading is that a Majority of Americans voted
for Bush. This is nowhere near the case. A more accurate description is 52%
of those that cast a vote for US President, voted for Bush. I believe a
plurality of registered voters decided not to vote (more than voted for
Bush).

According to CNN 59,268,900 voted for Bush. According to the CIA World Fact
book, the US population is 293,027,571 (July 2004 est.):

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/us.html

According to the US Census Bureau, as of 2003 there were  212,622,000 US
citizens over age 18 living in the US (Cell B32):

http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/foreign/ppl-174/tab01-01.xls

While some may have lost their right to vote, (felons, mentally incompetent,
etc.), I figure there are at least 195,000,000 eligible voters. According to
a paper by the Brookings Institute, about 10% of US citizens are not
eligible to vote, though there are also an unknown number of US citizens
living abroad who are (they estimate at least 3.5 million):

http://www.brook.edu/views/papers/20040909mcdonald.htm

While I am not disputing that Bush won the election, it was certainly not
with the support of a majority of Americans, more like 31%. It is shameful
that more US citizens chose not to vote, than voted for the winner.

David

On 11/4/04 2:47 PM, "Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com> wrote:

>>    http://www.alternet.org/election04/20406/
> 
> "Nearly 52 percent of all Americans preferred to simply ignore reality to
> keep their faith in God and the man who is only too happy to play messiah."
> 
> This democrat is oblivious to the problem with his party.  Americans aren't
> "ignoring reality".  It is democrats like this writer that are oblivious to
> reality.  Those red states don't consist solely of uneducated, evangelical
> rednecks "in pickup trucks who think my gay friends are a sin against
> nature".  Categorizing church goers and/or those that vote for a Republican
> candidate as intellectually sub-par, simpletons is not the way to boost the
> democrat party.  
> 
> This democrat is out of touch of America along with much of the party.
> Perhaps Obama can bring the party back in touch.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: matusiak [mailto:dave AT matusiak.org]
>> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 2:21 PM
>> To: 
>> "Internetworkers:http"@happyhouse.metalab.unc.edu://www.ibibli
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>> Subject: [internetworkers] RE: Erection
>> 
>> Hey Liberals --
>> 
>> Where's your God now?
>> 
>>    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/04/politics/main653667.shtml
>>    http://www.alternet.org/election04/20406/
>> 
>> Have a good 4 years.
>> /drm
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