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To: John Carragher who wrote (19635)	12/12/2003 7:19:36 PM
From: gamesmistress	Respond to of 793848

I think this concept has some value in analyzing relatively recent voting patterns and results. If you go to this site: uselectionatlas.org and click on 1992 or 2000 to view the results, then scroll down and click on Counties, you see why the "10 region" concept makes sense today. If you go back say to 1964 the voting pattern is quite different. California's voting pattern today does show a big difference between the coast and the interior. Remember, it was the Marin County folks who voted most FOR Gray Davis, while the interior voted against Gray by substantial majorities. As for Dukakis, he didn't do so badly in the popular vote - 53.37% for Bush and Quayle vs 45.65% for Dukakis and Bentsen - it was the electoral votes that did him in. The electoral/popular vote was even more disparate in 1992, when Ross Perot got just under 19% of the popular vote but no electoral votes. The patterns are fascinating.