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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: Hey! Libertarians only got 37,000 votes
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.033041.15273@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 03:30:41 GMT
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- In article <10302@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>, mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson) writes:
- |> In <1dcrs9INN5fg@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> david@cats.ucsc.edu (David Wright) writes:
- |>
- |>
- |> |>The title says it all. Perot got 14 million, Lullani F???ani got
- |> |>19,000, the Peace and Freedom people got some 10,000. Clearly
- |> |>Libertarians are a lunatic fringe....
- |>
- |> I don't know where you got your numbers from, but your appear to be comparing
- |> Perot's national figures with some states figures. The actual number for the
- |> Libertarians was closer to 270,000 to 280,000.
- |>
- |> Not as good as 1988, but still pretty good when the media pretends that
- |> you don't exist.
- |>
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- While the Libertarian presidential ticket had, uh, "disappointing" results,
- our candidates for congress did outstandingly well. In Georga, they forced
- a runoff race between the Republican and Democrate candidate, because neither
- one got 50% of the vote. Other races varied from .1% to 5-6%, which is
- really encouraging.
-
- Also, don't forget that there are now >4< Libertarians in the New Hampshire
- house.
-