> > >In the US, the liberal base is smaller than the conservative base, but the swing voters are more than numerous enough to make up for the difference.
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> > Are you certain that there are more people who label themselves as "conservatives" than "liberal"s in the US? It might be more likely that the liberal base that is most likely to vote is smaller than the conservative base that is most likely to vote.
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> That is what I meant. I kind of figure that if a person believes strongly enough in their positions, they will vote. (Unless they consider voting somehow evil--I know some people like this.)

I can't believe no one called me on this. More people total voted for Gore! I pretty much said the opposite of what I thought--I haven't a clue how that came out.

I wonder if I can make a graph of what I'm talking about. No. I played with ASCII characters, but it looked too bad. Imagine a double bell curve. The one on the left is higher and thinner, the one on the right is flatter and broader. [Don't read 'good' or 'bad' into the following statements] Liberals are concentrated further from center than conservatives. There are more people on the right, but not enough to make a difference since the swinging center is more than large enough to make up the difference. If any candidate could receive votes from the half to two-thirds of the population that usually doesn't vote at all, we'd have to come up with a new demographic.

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