Re: To all disappointed Bush bashers

From: Terry Given (my_name_at_ieee.org)
Date: 11/06/04 

Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 16:07:13 +1300

Jim Thompson wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 01:01:19 GMT, Rich The Philosophizer
> <null@example.net> wrote:
>
>
>>On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 11:25:41 +1300, Terry Given wrote:
>>
>
> [snip]
>
>>>Hey Fred, last I looked there were 265,000,000 USians or so, and only
>>>113,000,000 voted. How many eligible voters are there? what percentage
>>>actually voted. All the news media I have looked at prattle on about
>>>huge turnout, but never say what percentage.
>>>
>
> [snip]
>
> Deduct ~80 million too young to vote, and you get about a 60% turnout,
> not bad.
>
> ...Jim Thompson

OK, my guess was 100 million, not too far out. And 60% is fantastic -
thats about +20% from the 2000 campaign isnt it? regardless of
party/motive the get-out-the-vote (or whatever) certainly worked. I cant
recall the last election in NZ with a 50% turnout....

CHEERS
tERRY

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