From: backpack@access.digex.com (Stuart Reges)
Subject: Marrou/Lord vote totals
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:49:47 GMT

I'm just now starting to catch up with newsgroups I ignored during the
election.  I was surprised to find that nobody posted a very accurate
accounting of the Marrou/Lord vote total, so I thought I'd so so.  As far as I
know, this is the most definitive data available at this point.  The Associated
Press was reporting the following state-by-state vote totals for Marrou/Lord as
of 11/5:

        AL     5,506    IL     9,106    MT       976    RI       650
        AK     1,118    IN     7,285    NE     1,277    SC     2,710
        AZ     6,579    IA       649    NV     1,819    SD       862
        AR     1,194    KS     4,386    NH     4,576    TN     1,691
        CA    44,390    KY       977    NJ     6,173    TX    19,582
        CO     6,827    LA     3,477    NM     1,466    UT     1,913
        CT     5,514    ME     2,060    NY    16,386    VT       390
        DE       965    MD     4,603    NC     5,393    VA     5,619
        DC       455    MA     7,084    ND       405    WA     6,422
        FL    14,756    MI    10,115    OH     7,443    WV     1,808
        GA     7,455    MN     3,287    OK     4,486    WI     3,122
        HI     1,119    MS     2,788    OR     3,722    WY       819
        ID     1,161    MO     7,924    PA    21,315

        Total  281,805

The AP was also reporting the following vote totals for the various candidates
on 11/5:

        Clinton   43,946,051
        Bush      38,070,308
        Perot     19,258,910
        Marrou       281,805
        Gritz         97,721
        Fulani        80,411
        Hagelin       42,494
        Phillips      39,840
        LaRouche      25,959
        Daniels       25,833
        Mac Warren    25,046
        Bradford       4,605
        Herer          3,539
        Halyard        3,067
        Brisben        2,789
        These          2,525
        Yiamouyiannis  2,316
        Boren            980
        Dodge            953
        Ehlers           876
        Hem              395
        Masters          395
        Smith            290
        La Riva          178

The early reports from the AP put Fulani's vote total over 210K.  Apparently
there was a problem with the reports from NY about her vote total (inflating it
by over 120K!).  The numbers above take into account that correction.

Using these numbers, the actual vote percentages for Bush/Clinton/Perot
relative to other candidates is as follows:

        Clinton   43,946,051    43.12%
        Bush      38,070,308    37.35%
        Perot     19,258,910    18.90%
        Others       642,017     0.63%
        Total    101,917,286

If they had chosen to round to the nearest percentage, they would have gone
with 43/37/19, which adds up to 99%.  The numbers reported by the Washington
Post on 11/4 were based on early election returns, so I discount them.  But I
checked the Washington Post numbers on Thursday, 11/5 (2 days after the
election), and they were reported as 43/38/19, which handily adds up to 100%.
This was nothing short of a lie.  Using the numbers available from AP the day
before (on 11/4), they would have gotten a percentage for "others" of 0.75%
(because of the Fulani mistake).  So they knew that the percentages they were
reporting were false.  So much for journalistic integrity at the Washington
Post.  Did other papers on 11/5 report the vote breakdown for
Clinton/Bush/Perot as adding up to 100% of the votes cast or 99% of the votes
cast?

In case anyone is interested, we didn't quite surpass the aggregate of the vote
totals of the other minor candidates (although we came close).  In other words,
if you were to eliminate Clinton, Bush and Perot, you'd see the following
breakdown:

        Marrou  281,805   43.9%
        others  360,212   56.1%

--Stuart
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