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To: AuH2ORepublican
"Michael Dukakis got 46% in Montana in 1988---I don't think a Democrat presidential candidate will ever again get such a high percentage of the vote in the state."

I never say never regarding anything these days. Of course, Clinton received a paltry 38% of the vote 4 years later -- and won the state because Bush, Sr. dropped his performance from 52% to 35%. Perot received 26%. It was one of the few (only ?) states where you saw practically a 3-way split of the vote.

11 posted on 01/10/2006 10:30:10 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Maine had even more of a three-way race in 1992: Clinton got 38.77%, to 30.44% for Perot and 30.39% for Bush.

Montana's performance in 1992 was very similar to Nevada's, where Clinton got 37.36% to Bush's 34.73% and Perot's 26.19%.

Had Perot not been on the ballot in 1992, I estimate that Bush would have carried Montana by 52.7% to 45.4% and Nevada by 50.9% to 46.5%, while Maine would have been too close to call.


15 posted on 01/10/2006 10:51:04 AM PST by AuH2ORepublican (http://auh2orepublican.blogspot.com/)
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