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Friday, May 02, 2003 
Something overdue but interesting 
This would have been more relevant in 2000 (or 2001, when the census results came out), and I've been thinking about it for a while, but for some reason I decided to do it today. And this is my response to people talking about the 2000 election and saying "the majority of people voted for Gore."

Voted for Bush: 50,456,002
Voted for Gore: 50,999,897
Voted for Others: 3,949,201
Total who voted: 105,405,100*
US population: 290,867,001**
19 and under: 78,537,000+
Total of voting age: 212,300,001
Percentage who voted: 49.65

So, as I suspected, the answer is...The majority of Americans didn't vote for anybody!

Regardless of what you think of the 2000 election results, that's pretty dispiriting.

References:
*From Official 2000 Presidential Election Results
**From Census Bureau.
+Based on Census Bureau's 2000 estimated U.S. population by age (estimated from 1990 results). This is slightly skewed because it doesn't have 18 and under, just 19 and under.


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