election demographics

[Brad DeLong]

>From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
>
>>  Brad gave up on winning a long time ago. "That's the way it is," He just
>>  wants to slow down the rate of losing. To think of winning is "mad."
>Right,
>>  Brad? --jks
>
>What you don't understand is that things such as voter realignment and
>movement building are *exogenous variables*, and good economists don't do
>*exogenous variables*. The best you can expect of them is to support the
>lesser evil within the immutable iron cage.
>
>mark
>

3% of the vote on your second campaign is not "building a movement." 
It's "being a spoiler."

A movement should have 25% of the vote on its second campaign to be 
healthy. If it has less than 10%, it's dead...

Brad DeLong