Whoops I did it again!
You know who really won Tuesday's Presidential election?
Nobody.
More people (myself included) voted for Nobody than for any other candidate.
These results show that Nobody has a clear mandate.
Wouldn't it be great if Nobody showed up for the inauguration?
Hat tip to Andrew for the great pie chart.
Labels: I like to go with the winner, politics, who's on first?
posted by Angus @ 11/08/2012 08:55:00 AM
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I picked the winner!
So we have a fairly longstanding model of voting turnout in economics that says that people don't vote because the marginal cost is more than the marginal (instrumental) benefit and any expressive benefit.
That is pB+D-C<0
Then you want to take the empirical data showing how many people don't vote and claim that not voting is revealed preference about the candidates.
sigh.
Cursory Wikipedia glance at election turnout:
2012: 58-60%
2008: 61.6%
2004: 56.2%
2000: 50.4%
1996: 49%
1992: 55.2%
1988: 50.2%
1984: 53.1%
1980: 52.6%
1976: 53.5%
1972: 55.2%
1968: 60.8%
1964: 61.9%
1960: 63.1%
In other words, "Nobody" has significantly declined in the past two (maybe three) elections, with much clearer mandates in the past.
Sounds like your "mandate" is getting less clear...
So Richard Pryor is President-Elect? I can dig that...
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