[429] in libertarians
Re: Vernon for Congress; results
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vernon Imrich)
Wed Nov 23 20:03:46 1994
To: sethf@MIT.EDU
Cc: sjens@MIT.EDU, libertarians@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Nov 1994 18:50:40 EST."
<9411232350.AA19626@frumious-bandersnatch.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 20:02:26 EST
From: Vernon Imrich <vimrich@MIT.EDU>
|sethf>
|> > Blank Ballots: 9362 (28%; the same percentage Mark Roosevelt got for Gov.)
|>
|> Given the general political mood, I think any opponent on the
|> ballot could have grabbed a big chunk of that. If you had run a real
|> campaign
you might have had Vernon be the highest Libertarian
|> vote-getter in the state :-).
Well, Peter Everett, the LP candidate for Secretary of State got over
70,000 votes statewide. Our candidate for Auditor (Geoff Weil) got something
roughly close to that (Everett had 4% of total, while Weil got 3% of total
both in statewide races). So I'd have been outdone by a long shot even
if I grabbed all 9k blanks.
But in terms of percentage of the vote, perhaps. On the other hand, I'm
not exactly sure I would have enjoyed the publicity, at least not now.
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