Did straight-ticket voting cost Bill Clinton North Carolina?
An Oct. 25, 2004 story in the Charlotte Observer cited a study that found that enough North Carolinians failed to vote for president in 1992 to potentially sway the vote:
A few thousand lost votes here or there usually don't make a difference in the final outcome of the presidential race in North Carolina: In 2000, for example, George Bush beat Al Gore by 13 percentage points.
But in a close election, confusion could have dramatic results. In 1992, the first President George Bush won North Carolina by a tiny margin, capturing 43.3 percent of the vote, compared with 42.7 percent for Bill Clinton. A Duke University study of ballot design in that election found that about 1 percent of North Carolinians had mistakenly failed to vote for president.
Both parties have reminded their volunteers to make sure potential voters know how to cast ballots for president.
"It may not seem like much, but even 1 percent of the vote can make a difference," said James Hamilton, a Duke University public policy professor and a co-author of the study.
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Re: Did straight ticket cost Clinton in '92?
I am so sorry that low unemployment and a federal government surplus caused you such harm in the Clinton administration. It must have been very painful to see people like pick a payment ken of wachovia take 27 million dollars for destroying your bank. wait, that just happened, but it is bound to be the democrats fault as is bush firing secretary of the treasry snow when he warned of the impending mortgage crisis. incidentally the bad loans had over an 800 percent increase from 2000 to 2001 and was up substantially again in 2002; i suppose that was clinton's fault as well.