tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90273582012-01-28T19:24:23.245-05:00Jeremy Hyltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17509595813246413680noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027358.post-1099693332931116482004-11-05T17:09:00.001-05:002004-11-05T17:22:12.930-05:00<a href="http://zesty.ca/lj/elections.html">Results of presidential elections</a>, courtesy of <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/zestyping/">Ping.</a> He's assembled lots of good data -- how many votes the winner got, how many electoral votes, how many people voted, what percentage of the voting-age population voted. I did a Google search ealier but couldn't find this data. <br /> <br />It's striking to see how close many of the elections are. George H.W. Bush beat Dukakis by only eight points and Clinton beat Bush by only 5 points. But what about reall close races? Carter beat Ford by 2 points and Kennedy beat Nixon by only 0.2 percent of the popular vote. It's really distressing for W to talk about a mandate when so many people voted against him. I guess when you lost the popular vote in your first term, any margin of victory feels immense. <br /> <br />Ping has a good closs on the <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/zestyping/82828.html">election results</a>. There were lots of problems in states where the race was close like Ohio and Louisiana. I suspect that close elections are about as accurate as the un-corrected census results. It's small comfort that this year as in 2000, more people intended to vote for the Democratic candidate. <br /><span class="down" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_CreateLink" title="Link" onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 8);ButtonMouseDown(this);"></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9027358-109969333293111648?l=otherhylton.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Jeremy Hyltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17509595813246413680noreply@blogger.com112tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027358.post-1099692374517269762004-11-05T17:04:00.000-05:002004-11-05T17:06:14.516-05:00This is my blog for politics. I have a <a href="http://www.python.org/~jeremy/weblog/">weblog at python.org</a>, but it didn't seem appropriate to get into politics on a site hosted by a public charity. I don't speak for the <a href="http://www.python.org/psf/">PSF</a> in my weblog, but I want to be sure I don't create the wrong impression. <br /> <br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9027358-109969237451726976?l=otherhylton.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Jeremy Hyltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17509595813246413680noreply@blogger.com44