election demographics

Brad DeLong delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Wed Nov 8 12:56:25 PST 2000



>At 12:10 PM 11/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>Max,
>> At this point Gore is ahead by 200,000 in the
>>popular vote but apparently set to lose the electoral
>>college, with Nader votes in Florida and a few other
>>places clearly making the difference.
>
>
>i think it is pretty clear that nader didn't steal many votes in
>florida. 1.6% for nader. that means that they were mostly
>hardcore nadarites already or people who were hardcore "i hate the
>two evils" already or people who wouldn't have voted at all,
>disgusted by the whole thing.

Yeah. But if one out of forty Nader voters was pulled from Gore, that's the margin of victory for Bush in Florida.

I think that more than one out of forty Nader voters would have made it to the polls to vote for Gore if Nader hadn't run, don't you?

Brad DeLong



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