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Politics : Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. President or Pretender? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MJ who wrote (397)	5/30/2007 1:16:33 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1090

Bloomberg is ultra liberal. He won't can any republican vote any where but in the NE and the dems own that anyway. He will just take some votes away from Dems in other states. Fla might be the only state he might make a difference

To: MJ who wrote (397)	5/30/2007 2:18:14 PM
From: mistermj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1090

I doubt an independent can get anywhere close to 33% of the vote....but then I checked on Ross Perot. I had thought his numbers were smaller. In the 1992 election, he received 18.9% of the popular vote (but no electoral votes), making him the most successful Independent presidential candidate in terms of the popular vote since Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 election. Some analysts believe that Perot acted as a spoiler in the election, primarily drawing votes away from Bush and allowing Clinton to win many states with less than a majority of votes. Perot managed to finish second in two states: In Maine, Perot received 30.44% of the vote to Bush's 30.39% (Clinton won Maine with 38.77%); In Utah, Perot received 27.34% of the vote to Clinton's 24.65% (Bush won Utah with 43.36%). Many believe[citation needed] that Perot would have had a chance to win electoral votes, and perhaps the election, had he not publicly balked and then come back to campaigning so close to Election Day. en.wikipedia.org