Reply #160: The issues that resonate in Cuyahoga Co. will do better in the US [View All]

[dpbrown]

The statistics you've cited for party affiliation are estimates, and the vote percentages don't take into account the number of people, nearly as large as that sample - who didn't vote.

In 2000, Bush got about 50 million votes, and Gore got closer to 51 million. Eighty million people did not vote.

The median measurements on that massive group of people are more likely to track closer to the measurements of Cuyahoga County than they are to track with the demographics of Vermont.

Therefore, someone who has been growing in appeal consistently for the people of Cuyahoga County (with a population more than twice that of the tiny state of Vermont), will be in a better position to reach those disillusioned or betrayed voters than a candidate from a region with an overwhelmingly white population who've themselves tired of the Governor they bore for five terms, voting him in less and less enthusiastically with each election until he slipped out the door in 2002 to "run for President" rather than be shown the door by the voters.

Kudos for having those statistics at hand, however.

Kucinich: Better Ideas, Better Candidate - it's just that simple

Dan Brown
Saint Paul, Minnesota