[MLUG - DISCUSSION] Jesse Ventura (was "speaking of apocalyptic horsemen...")

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Jonathan King wrote:

> At the time of his election, the interesting thing was that he really
> did come out of nowhere.  Here are some ancient poll (and election)
> numbers:
>
> Date         Humphrey   Coleman   Ventura   Undecided
>
> ELECTION       28%        34%       37%        ---
> Late Oct.      34%        33%       23%        10%
> Early 10/98    44%        31%       15%        10%
> September 98   43%        29%       13%        15%
> June    1998   46%        30%        7%        17%
> February 1998  39%        33%       --         28%
>
> Jesse isn't even in the *poll* 9 months before the election.


That is pretty amazing.  The big attraction of Jesse Ventura, I'm told, is
that he was supposed to put an end to "politics as usual."  People were
bored with the other two candidates and wanted to see what the new guy
could do.  Apparently, Ventura took a little more from Humphrey than from
Coleman and he also nabbed much of the undecideds.

But 62% voted for someone other than Ventura and Ventura won with much
less than a majority.  Still, he wasn't all that unpopular and might have
won if he had decided to run again.

Mike
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