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[troublemaker]

Here's your chance to join in the dumbest exchange of ideas in the history of our nation. From the people who expressed the 2000 results in terms of square miles won by each candidate or in terms of who won white people (!) here's the latest in RW delusionalism... a call for national polls that exclude California, New York and Illinois. That would show the "true" election race rather than arbitrarily favoring Kerry by counting all the millions of people who support Kerry.

Bush, Kerry Poll without CA, NY and Illinois? Without California, New York and Illinois, RealClear Politics 1.7% spread widens to well over 5%. Since those states are already hopeless, it's useful to look at the electorate remaining without them. Bush lost those 3 states by 3.5 million votes in 2000, CA by 11.8%, Illinois by 12%, and New York by 25%. I didn't use that wide of margin though in this calculation, as I doubt he'll get blown out by 25% in NY this time round.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1240950/posts

More Gems:

"Maybe voters in urban areas should have each of their votes multiplied by .75 before being counted."

"Outside of Los Angeles County, Bush had a popular-vote plurality of about 300,000 in the country as a whole."