Ralph, Can You Do Basic Arithmetic?

[Brad DeLong]

>A friend sent:
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>>Subject: Ralph, Can You Do Basic Arithmetic?
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>>I just saw Nader on a live feed.
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>>Questioner:  The Florida Secretary of State certifies that Bush is a winner
>>in Florida by
>>1500 votes.  You received 98,000 votes.  Is there any validity to the claim
>>of the Gore people that you may have cost Gore the election?
>>
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>>Nader:  Nah, I don't think so.  30% of our voters would not have voted if
>>Bush and Gore had been the only people running.  Then only 70% of those who
>>WOULD have voted would have voted for Gore, ACCORDING TO OUR NUMBERS.
>>

Anyone who ever claimed that Nader was "not a normal politician" now 
owes me $100...

Brad DeLong