Last night I went over the June 5th Special election for the 50th CD in California,here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1400128Here's quick review:
Lets look at the other House races and see how the Libertarians did..
Here are the other House Primaries in San Diego:
49- LARS GROSSMITH - LIB-269
50- PAUL KING - LIB-536
51 - DAN LITWIN - 127
52-MICHAEL BENOIT-LIB- 431
53- ERNIE LIPPE - LIB- 390
Well.. it seems that in the Libertarian House Primaries held in San Diego, only 1753 Libertarians voted. Now remember that number, 1753. You will need it for the next segment.
Heres the Kicker:
County results for state wide races
Note that these numbers are entirely consistant with the numbers above.
Governor: ART OLIVIER - LIB - 1727
Lt Gov.- LYNNETTE SHAW - LIB- 1727
SOS -GAIL K. LIGHTFOOT - LIB- 1782
Controller- DONNA TELLO - LIB- 1772
Treasurer-MARIAN SMITHSON- LIB- 1767
AG.- KENNETH A. WEISSMAN - LIB- 1752
GOSH what a marvel of consistancy the Libertarian Party is..... But that Paul King got 2201 votes in a House race, hes a STAR, he outperformed his fellow Libertarians who ran for state wide office......
SO I was wondering how many Libertarians are registered in CA50...Thanks to Rumple from here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1400128#1401347US Congressional 50
Total Registered = 355,409
Democratic = 105,504 =29.69%
Republican = 156,437 =44.02%
American Independent = 7,812 =2.20%
Green = 2,373 =0.67%
Libertarian = 2,232 =0.63%
Natural Law = 666 =0.19%
Peace and Freedom = 582 =0.16%
Other = 1,791 =0.50%
Decline to State = 78,012 =21.95%
So in CA 50 there are 2,232 registered Libertarian voters, while Paul King got 2201 votes in the Special election for CA 50. And on the same day in the Libertarian primary PAUL KING got 536 votes. NOw I know this is readily explainable, but I do think its weird.
536 Libertarian Primary voters
2201 Libertarian Special election voters
2,232 registered Libertarian voters
Sooo... It might be logical that Libertarian voters didn't bother to vote in the Libertarian Primary. Though it certainly
looks as if all but 31 Libertarian voters voted in the Special election.
I now want to move to the April 11th Primary, I will be using these numbers:
http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/Special/cd50/elections_cd50results.htmSpecial Primary Election - April 11, 2006
Official Canvass
Here are the results from April 11th, I have selected those who were on the June 5th Special Election, and left out 14 other candidates:
Brian P. Bilbray Republican 20,952
Francine Busby Democratic 60,010
William Griffith Independent 1,111
Paul King Libertarian...........819.. these 4 races total 82892 votes
Ballots Cast .........137,529
-4 races April 11th....82,892
Equals.................
54,637Here are the results for June 5th:
BRIAN BILBRAY 69617
FRANCINE BUSBY 63489
W. GRIFFITH ...5318
PAUL KING ....2201..
Ballots Cast .........134,302
If you got this far, I hope this is worth those minutes you spent reading.....TO believe Brain Bilbray won CA 50, you have to believe 54637 voters who voted otherwise on April 11th,
voted thusly on June 5th:
BRIAN BILBRAY 48665 more votes.. about 350% more
FRANCINE BUSBY 3479 more votes.. about 5% more
W. GRIFFITH ...4207 more votes.. about 400% more
PAUL KING ....1382 more votes .. about 150% more
I wonder if TIA might be around.....
I suck at math, so feel free to check it.