election demographics

Brad DeLong delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Thu Nov 9 16:27:58 PST 2000



>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



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