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Question: Was 1992 a landslide?
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yes
 
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no
 
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minionofmidas
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« on: June 25, 2007, 08:54:03 AM »


Yes a lot of Perot`s Votes would have gone to Bush. Had 2/3 of Perot`s voters gone to Bush and 1/3 gone to Clinton. This is what each state`s results would have looked like:

Verdict: Bush wins a narrow victory over Clinton.
Alas, your premise isn't supported by the polls, which said that Bush would have profitted only marginally from Perot's absence (in marked contrast with 96 - Perot's 96 votership was a good bit to the right of his 92 one. But even for 96 your formula is probably too generous for the Republicans, simply because quite a few of Perot's voters would have stayed at home).

Of course, it would also differ from state to state.

And there's the difference between these two questions:
What would have happened if Perot had been magically removed from the ballot? That's all that the polls can answer.
What would have happened if the whole Perot campaign had never happened - if there had never even been any noises about him running, if he had never existed? That's impossible to answer exactly, although the answer would probably be somewhat more favorable to the Republicans than the answer to the first question.
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2007, 11:08:57 AM »

It's not exactly reasonable to redistribute Perot's votes in the same way in the District of Columbia as Utah.

I also suspect that people tend to overstate their propensity to not vote if their independent candidate of choice were to not be on the ballot.
What would have happened if Perot had been magically removed from the ballot? That's all that the polls can answer.

The polls can't even reliably answer that.  You cannot trust a Perot voter to admit whether or not they would have voted at all without Perot on the ballot.
True of course, so it should be "the most the polls can answer". Still, it's unreasonable to assume that those who said they wouldn't have voted at all would all have actually broken for Bush. Grin
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