To: MrLeRoy
These studies are ignoring a tremendously huge caveat:
They assume that voters for Perot would still have voted anyway if Perot were not a candidate.
595 posted on
09/16/2003 2:41:38 PM PDT by
Maelstrom
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To: Maelstrom
These studies [...] assume that voters for Perot would still have voted anyway if Perot were not a candidate."False: "most of the minor party vote, however, would not otherwise have voted." (Niskanen)
738 posted on
09/17/2003 10:59:48 AM PDT by
MrLeRoy
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