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To: Dave W

I’m not denying the ground game, I am simply pointing out reality.

The idea that Fauxbama is going to pull 8 or 10 Million more votes on election day by having 6% more democrats show up than republicans is comical on its face.

Every election cycle the electorate has been growing by about 20 Million voters. To get 8 to 10 Million more D votes than R votes on election day from your party affiliation means you have to break the math down this way:

Independents ~25%, so keeping this going you have 16 Millioin voters registering that are registering with 1 party or the other. There is no way you get an 8 to 10 Million advantage with 16 Million new party affilliated voters registering, its JUST NOT MATHEMATICALLY POSSIBLE.

To get to 8 Million margin, that would mean of the 16 million registered, only 4 Million registered republican.. or 25%, leaving 12 Million to register democratic... To get to a 10 Million advantage only 2 Million of the new registrants nationwide registered republican, leaving 14 Million to be Ds.

And you are not going to get 3 to 1 let alone 7 to 1 registration advantage nationally, I don’t care how good on the ground Fauxbama is. Even if you say Fauxbamas organization is INSANELY EFFECTIVE IN ALL 50 states and we get 25 Million new registrations instead of 20 this election, (that show up now, not just register), you still don’t get math that is believable for a Fauxbama victory that maps to a 6% margin in the electorial turnout.

The math doesn’t add up for poll modeling with democrats getting a 6% advantage as representative of election day results.


298 posted on 10/06/2008 10:09:57 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay
The fact is neither you nor I know who will show up on election day. I do know this: Obama's folks are working themselves ragged registering voters. In Hampton (predominantly minority), 1,000 new voters a week for the past 2 months. I know that many may not show, but maybe just 20% of the newly registered show up and they vote 80% for Obama El. If it is close in Virginia, it could give him the state.

On the other hand, if Obama El wins in Virginia, there will be many other states voting for Obama El, too.

I hear what you are saying and it makes sense, but you never know this may be the election in which there are new bellwethers.

I have a hard time believing that Obama will get the votes of many after offending at least a third of the country with his clinging to guns and religion statement. That unveiled who Obama truly is.

302 posted on 10/06/2008 10:41:40 AM PDT by Dave W
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