[lbo-talk] "Incredible" vote tallies

[Jordan Hayes]

Bush's 'Incredible' Vote Tallies
By Sam Parry
November 9, 2004

George W. Bush's vote tallies, especially in the key state of Florida,
are so statistically stunning that they border on the unbelievable.

While it's extraordinary for a candidate to get a vote total that
exceeds his party's registration in any voting jurisdiction - because of
non-voters - Bush racked up more votes than registered Republicans in 47
out of 67 counties in Florida. In 15 of those counties, his vote total
more than doubled the number of registered Republicans and in four
counties, Bush more than tripled the number.

Statewide, Bush earned about 20,000 more votes than registered
Republicans.

By comparison, in 2000, Bush's Florida total represented about 85
percent of the total number of registered Republicans, about 2.9 million
votes compared with 3.4 million registered Republicans.

Bush achieved these totals although exit polls showed him winning only
about 14 percent of the Democratic vote statewide - statistically the
same as in 2000 when he won 13 percent of the Democratic vote - and
losing Florida's independent voters to Kerry by a 57 percent to 41
percent margin. In 2000, Gore won the independent vote by a much
narrower margin of 47 to 46 percent.

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