Bush won the popular vote by 62-59 million.
Lets see what had to happen for this to occur, assuming the
rBr hyopthesis.
We will consider two scenarios, changing National Exit Poll
A) Party ID weights and
B) vote percentages
to see what would be necessary to derive the final Bush
margin.
There are many combinations of alternate scenarios I can run.
I welcome your suggestions.
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National Exit poll
12:22am
13047 respondents
Votes in millions
Kerry won it by 4.5 mm votes (51.4%-47.8%)
PARTY ID Mix Bush Kerry Nader
Democrat 38% 9% 91% 0%
Republican 35% 92% 8% 0%
Independent 27% 45% 52% 3%
100% 47.77% 51.42% 0.81%
Votes 122.26 58.40 62.87 0.99
The odds are 1 in 300 million that Bush could go from 47.77%
to his actual 50.73%
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rBr Scenario A:
Keep the Party ID weights constant at 38 Dem/35 Rep/37 Ind
In the prior three elections, it was 39/35/26.
Assume Bush wins an IMPOSSIBLE 100% of Republican voters.
And he gets 9.0% of Democratic voters.
That will do it.
He wins by over 3 million votes.
Mix Bush Kerry Nader
Dem 38% 9.0% 91.0% 0.0%
Rep 35% 100% 0.0% 0.0%
Ind 27% 45.0% 52.0% 3.0%
100% 50.57% 48.62% 0.81%
Votes 122.26 61.83 59.44 0.99
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rBr Scenario B:
Keep the vote percentages constant.
But DRASTICALLY change the Party ID weighting to:
Dem 35%/Rep 39%/ Ind 26%
That also does it.
Mix Bush Kerry Nader
Dem 35% 9.0% 91.0% 0.0%
Rep 39% 92.0% 8.0% 0.0%
Ind 26% 45.0% 52.0% 3.0%
100% 50.73% 48.49% 0.78%
Votes 122.26 62.02 59.28 0.95