The Values-Vote Myth

[Justin]

On 2004-11-06T16:39:41+0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 08:46:17AM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
> 
> > So: A 'moral values' question for Cypherpunks. Does this election indict 
> > the American people as being complicit in the crime known as "Operation 
> 
> Of course. What kind of question is that? Regardless of voting fraud, about
> half of US has voted for four more years of the same. Guilty.

Not true.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/03/voter.turnout.ap/

"[Curtis] Gans puts the total turnout at nearly 120 million people.
That represents just under 60% of eligible voters..."

120m * 100%/60% = 200 million eligible voters  (The U.S. population
according to census.gov was 290,809,777 as of 2003-07-01

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/
"Bush Vote: 59,459,765"
Let's generously round that up to 65 million.

65m/200m = 32.5% of eligible voters voted for Bush
65m/290.8m = 22.4% of the U.S. population voted for Bush

I can't find an accurate number of registered voters, but one article
suggests 15% of registered voters don't vote.  That means there are
probably around 141m registered voters.  Bush didn't even win majority
support from /those/.

65m/141m = 46% of registered voters voted for Bush


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