Reply #67: Before I respond, a question.... [View All]

[anaxarchos]

(Before we get to even that: Could you post a link whenever you present "evidence", please? I'm guessing you are referring to the 2000-2002-2004 NES panel study but it helps to be specific {what and where exactly}, so we don't have a lot of digging to do.).

I really want to start with the actual election (the first part of your serve) but I have a problem. The only evidence you have presented for the plausibility of your split is the research you have presented in the second part of your serve. Before I go digging out NES panel studies, isn't that an unverified panel (i.e. a panel of "eligible voters")? If so and it is not a panel of "verified" Gore voters, then you can not apply that conclusion to a REAL population of Gore voters. You might (and I have some doubts) be able to apply it to a sample of people who SAID that they voted for Gore in 2000 and actually voted in 2004 but, even here, we would be on thin ice.

I know it can't be that simple but, I thought I would ask before I dig.