[lbo-talk] 2004 High Turnout and High Percentage for Kerry (Re: No, actually, I don't believe it.

[Doug Henwood]

Nathan Newman wrote:


>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>-Not at all. Turnout matches 1980, lower than 1992.
>
>Doug-- You are being inaccurate or at least confusing turnout based on
>"voting age population" versus "voting eligible population."

I quite deliberately chose VAP rather than VEP as the denominator. As 
the Census guy told me when I was doing my Atlas back in 1994, they 
use VAP as the denominator because immigrants etc. have to obey laws 
and pay taxes, so total pop over 18 is the relevant number.

Doug