In the last Governors race, the Rep. candidate got over 1 million votes. The libertarian got a whopping 11,000 votes.
Shift to this past election. . Libertarian pickes up 180 thousand votes. McCallum has 400,000 votes go away.
If every vote for a Libertarian came from the republican voters as you claim, explain were the other 220,000 prior republican voters went?
Again, the state GOP was of the same mind set as you are, if we run a R we will win. Well guess what, 220,000 of your freinds felt it was not needed to show up.
Why aren't the gun shows covered in McCallum stickers and signs, if he is the big gun advocate you claim. Maybe he takes his base for granted? Do not blame the people that were out there voteing.Look at the goofs that did not show up.
| 1998 WI Gubernatorial |
2002 WI Gubernatorial | ||
| Tommy Thompson (R) |
1,055,434 |
732,796 |
Scott McCallum (R) |
| Edward Garvey (D) |
681,734 |
800,971 |
Jim Doyle (D) |
| Jim Mueller (L) |
11,010 |
185,085 |
Ed Thompson (L) |
| All Other Third Party |
17,190 |
52,161 |
All Other Third Party |
| Total Votes |
1,765,368 |
1,771,013 |
Total Votes |
This table tells a story, given that the total number of votes cast for Governor remained almost the same - in other words, the same people that voted in 1998 also voted in 2002.
This table also shows how the votes shifted.
The number of Republican votes dropped by 322,638.
The number of Democrat votes increased by 119,237, but the number of Libertarian votes increased by 174,075, for a total of 293,312 - not too far off the number of Republican votes dropped.
There's the shift. That's where Doyle's and Ed Thompson's votes came from - they came from McCallum, just like I said. And had those Ed Thompson voters voted for McCallum, instead of on an equally uncharismatic candidate who was destined to loose, we wouldn't be facing four years of Doyle.