election demographics

[Brad DeLong]

>Brad wrote:
>>  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...
>>
>
>The last successful US movement to expropriate a large part of the
>wealth of the rich had this record (popular vote of course) in
>Presidential elections:
>
>1840  Birney 	00.25%
>1844  Birney 	02.3%
>1848  Van Buren 10%
>1852  Hale		05%
>1856  Fremont	33%
>1860  Lincoln   40%
>1864  Lincoln   55%
>
>john mage

Touche...

Tell me more about Birney. I should know this, but I don't...

Brad DeLong