What is wrong with this picture?
Abs. Kerry | Abs. Bush | Abs. Total | Absentee Margin |
58% | 42% | 91039
| +16 points |
Early Kerry | Early Bush | Early Total | Early Voting Margin |
72% | 28% | 49365 | +43 points |
Election Day Kerry | Election Day Bush | Election Day Total | Election Day Margin |
40% | 60% | 404666 | -20 points |
Excuse Me? What happened on Election Day? Is this phenomenon specific to Palm Beach County or was it replicated in other Florida counties?
Palm Beach Excel Spreadsheet
Note that Broward and Miami-Dade counties do not provide their election results in CSV/Excel format, but in gigantic tables that make it nearly impossible to do this analysis. Why would that be?
Update [2004-11-11 10:26:38 by dotpeople]: 60-40 = 20. My Bad. Got mixed up when cutting and pasting the previous table row. Deepest apologies.
Update [2004-11-11 10:31:47 by dotpeople]: Egg on Face. I transposed the two numbers. I can't believe it. Full responsibility mine. I can only point at my previous two diaries where I made no such mistake.