Re: the new number one reason to vote Nader

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

In my much more humble opinion, I agree with Michael: it doesn't make sense to me that non-voters and voters would vote in a similar way, since the former are poorer, more minority, and less educated than the latter, and many votes correlate highly with income, ethnicity, and education.
Jim D. 

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	From: Michael Hoover [mailto:HooverM@xxxxxxxxxx] 
	Sent: Tue 6/1/2004 10:54 AM 
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	Subject: Re: [PEN-L] the new number one reason to vote Nader
	
	

	>>> dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx 6/1/2004 1:46:00 PM >>>
	Michael Hoover wrote:
	>  >>> dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx 5/31/2004 2:06:42 PM
	>poli sci guy stephen earl bennett's 1990 'deconstruction' ('the uses
	>and abuses of registration and turnout data', _ps_) of above exposed
	it
	>for canard it actually is...
	
	That's not what a bunch of public opinion pundits told me recently.
	Most surveys found little difference between voters & nonvoters. One
	"deconstruction" isn't necessarily the last word.
	Doug
	<<<<<>>>>
	
	yeah, yeah, yeah, i know what literature on this stuff says, i read it
	all time as it is part and parcel of mainstream pol sci
	'voting behavior' studies...
	
	don't think you're reference to 'public opinion pundits' (always found
	use of that term interesting given that it means self-
	professed authority) weakens point of my previous post, in fact, it may
	strengthen it...  michael hoover (in his own not so humble opinion)