That I believe. Because you refuse to do even the most basic research. For example, accusing me of not having data to support Bush taking 49% in PA-12. When all the time it's linked to my home page! :-D Oopsie, Counselor!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1601047/posts?page=80#80
And AuH2O's previous post, pulled due to formatting problems, is here (I saved it. How about that?!?):
AuH2O:My source for stating that Kerry carried Murtha's PA-12 by only 51%-49% is Michael Barone's 2006 Almanac of American Politics. Barone reported that Kerry got 141,046 votes to President Bush's 133,088 in 2004; I just did the math, and it would give President Bush 48.55% (rounded up to 49%) to Kerry's 51.45% (rounded down to 51%).
Barone got his numbers from Polidata, which apparently was unable to compute the number of votes obtained in the district by third-party candidates, but it was certainly more than 0, so the CD's percentages for both Kerry and Bush are a bit inflated.
Third-party candidates got 0.65% in PA in 2004, and assuming that they got the same percentage in the PA-12, they would have gotten 1,801 votes there, increasing the total votes cast to 275,935. Thus, under such an assumption, President Bush actually got 48.23% (rounded down to 48%) while Kerry got 51.12% (rounded down to 51%).
Here's the page of Barone's Almanac that covers the PA-12, with the presidential info on the bottom of the page (I hope this works)
Like taking candy from a baby. Next blowhard attorney!
Coop, I don't do the whole looking at people's homepages game. If you had the source, then why play games and not post the link?
I was later able to repost the 2004 presidential voting information for PA-12 without the bad link that got my original post pulled. Here's the post: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1601047/posts?page=99#99