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                                       POWER of a bloc vote
      (Many of you know the power of a bloc vote from our earlier e-newsletters.  
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    Candidates  A and  B are competing to be the governor of a state with 10 million votes.  For  simplicity's sake, let's assume that the state has two types of voters.  The mainstream  group has 9 million votes.  The minority group has 1 million votes.

     If you are a candidate which group would you court to win the race?  The 9 million vote  mainstream group, right?    Not so fast.  

     Candidate  A  courts the mainstream group successfully.  On election day,  A  
wins that group by  a margin of 53% to 47%.  Many gubernatorial elections have smaller margins of differences than that.   The difference is 6%.  6% of 9 million votes is 540,000 votes.   So  B  is losing by 540,000 votes  coming out of the mainstream group.

    Candidate B courts the minority group, because the minority group knows how to deliver a bloc  vote  of 80% to 20%.   B  wins that group.  The difference between 80% and 20% is 60%.  60% of  one million votes is 600,000. So  B  
wins  the governor's seat by a comfortable margin of  (600,000 - 540,000) = 60,000 votes.  

    Do you now understand the POWER of a bloc vote?   A small  minority, with a 10% vote share, wins the gubernatorial race!

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