Reply #13: Total votes.... [View All]

[Sancho]

In 2000, Pinellas county:
Bush 184823
Gore 200629

In 2004, Pinellas county:
Bush 225686
Kerry 225460

There was a subtantial drop in Nader, etc.

So Rep. picked up 40,000 and Dem. 25,000 in a county that grew in school age populations, minority, etc....what really, really makes me suspicious was that Castor beat Marinez 52% to 44%; a new school tax was approved 63% to 35%!

It just doesn't make sense for so many new people (mostly Dem. because of the new motor/votor) to vote for Castor and new taxes and Bush?!?! How did Bush pick up 15,000 more votes while new registrations are favoring Dems...I think the Senate race is closer to reality here...and the urban/rural/costal argument doesn't explain such discrepancies.