election demographics

[Seth Ackerman]

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> From: 	Brad DeLong[SMTP:delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU]
> Reply To: 	lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Sent: 	Thursday, November 09, 2000 3:14 PM
> To: 	lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: 	Re: election demographics
> 
> 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
> 
These figures are drawn from the Handbook of Movement-Building Statistics
1999-2000, available from DNC Press, Washington DC.

Seth