[Trollstomper]

I'm not sure what your bottom line is; nor that the "6%" can be stipulated to be Muslim. It is certainly not the case that 6 % of voters were Muslim, nor would the conflated addition of Arabs) overwhelmingly Christian, bring it to this figure). And even if it were, 40 % of Muslims in the US are Black Americans, and I don't think even Grover would suggest they voted for us. Told the "Grover/Sami Florida Muslim vote thesis, one of the top operatives for Jeb Bush and the Bush campaign, now serving in the Administration, laughed aloud and said that Haitian immigrant voters were more important than any Muslim vote!

I have not had time to check your links; there are numerous academic and journal articles about this, incuding by Alex Rose and by STATS (Statistical Assessment Service) which I would commend to your attention an dhave cited previously.

On the issue of Muslim alienation, if/when I have time I will send you statements from leading spokemen for that "community" who have said in recent weeks that "Bush will be lucky if he gets 5% of the Muslim vote." A reason that does not seem to be affecting his lead in Fla, is most probably because it never did.

Finally, again, the states (MI most notably) and the precincts and CDs, (MI again especially) where the "Muslim vote" going for Bush in anything like the cited 70% should have carried for Bush and the GOP -- Gore votes and Dem votes remained solid.

[William McKinley]

I'm not sure what your bottom line is; nor that the "6%" can be stipulated to be Muslim.

My bottom line is that there is no way Bush got 70% of the Muslim vote. It undoubtably went to Gore by, if I had to make a reasoned estimate, about a 2-1 margin.

A reason that does not seem to be affecting his lead in Fla, is most probably because it never did.

Which means you have gotten to what my bottom line was.