[Sosfbay-discuss] Some jarring stats

Tian Harter tnharter at aceweb.com
Sat Nov 8 01:14:29 PST 2008


I deduce that we need to run many more candidates. How about that?

Fred Duperrault wrote:
> Based on today's  SF Chronicle's vote counts of the California U.S House 
> of Reps. and State Assembly election, I did some totaling - with a 
> possible  17%  margin of error. (As yet, no one has checked my arithmetic.)
> 
>  > The total number of votes the five California Green Party candidates 
> received was 44,612.
>    The average was 8,922.
> 
>  > The Libertarian Party's twenty one candidates received 240,227 
> votes.  They averaged       
>     11,438 votes,
> 
>  > The Peace and Freedom Party's five candidates received a total of 
> 35,015. They averaged
>     7,003.
> 
>  > The two Independents  (Cindy Sheehan and Thomas Lash) received a 
> total of 64,793 votes.
>     Their average was 32,397.
> 
>  > The total number of Independent  and "Third Party" votes  was 384,647.
> 
>  > The Libertarian party garnered about 62% of the non-DemoRepub votes.
> 
> What can the Green Party of California deduce from these statistics?
> 
>  
> 
> _______________________________________________
> sosfbay-discuss mailing list
> sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss
> 

-- 
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
Latest change: Added SCCGP election night party pictures and commentary.
I hit the "IN GOD WE TRUST" on the collage by my door with photons while
I was hearing Wangari Mathai say "United States of America" on my radio.



More information about the sosfbay-discuss mailing list