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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (17192)	2/17/2008 4:24:46 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

obama will be hard to beat, people just love his snake oil brand of empty "feel good" platitudes... GZ

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (17192)	2/18/2008 4:27:09 PM
From: MJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

TIME FOR THE TRUTH IN STATISTICS PATROL BY MJ From the link and article--- nytimes.com. "Given that the American story has been so inextricable from the struggle over race, the Obama triumph has been the bigger surprise to many. Perhaps because I came of age in the racially divided Washington public schools of the 1960s and had one of my first newspaper jobs in Richmond in the early 1970s, I almost had to pinch myself when Mr. Obama took 52 percent of Virginia’s white vote last week. The Old Dominion continues to astonish those who remember it when." MJ's Observations: Let's begin by noting that Virginians do not registered by party affiliation nor do they register by race. Hence I am puzzled by his statement that Obama took 52% of the white vote in Virginia. How could this be? In Virginia there are 4,585,818 registered voters. Of this number 1,451,358 people voted in the Democrat and Republican Primaries on February 12, 2008. That means that 32% of all registered voters voted in either the Democrat or Republican Party primary. This tells us that 68% of all registered voters eligible to vote in the Primaries did not vote. In the Democrat Primary, Obama took 64% of the Democrat Party's Primary vote and Clinton took 35% of the same OBAMA 623,141 64% of voters voting CLINTON 347,252 35% of voters voting (These numbers were taken from the Virginia results with 99% of the vote in on February 13th, 2008) Their combined vote was 21% of all registered voters in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Mr. Obama's portion of all registered Virginia voters was about 13.58% while Clinton's portion of the same was about 7.42%. Mr. Rich needs to document his statistics leading to the 52% as it does not compute as he has stated it. The 52% is 52% of what figure? Was it based on an exit poll? mj