To convert these projections into electoral-college votes, his model then simulates a large number of elections, using a random-number generator to determine vote tallies and the electoral-college votes associated with them.
But it's the relative importance placed on an issue that determines voting behavior.
"I don't rule out a candidate or choose a candidate because of their religion, it's not usually a determining factor in my vote choice," she said.
In Louisiana, black turnout -- the result of a determined get-out-the-vote operation, perhaps helped by Mr. Lott's remarks -- was the key to Ms. Landrieu's unexpected victory.
That contrasted with national polls, which showed that more than 90percentt of whites said that race would not be a factor in determining their vote.
"But there's no doubt that voters' perception of the future of the economy will be a main factor in determining their vote".
A big unknown, in both Congressional and presidential elections, is whether women's concerns on this issue, no matter how strong, will determine a vote.
Such a ruling by the Supreme Court could bring some uniformity to the hand counts now going on in three Florida counties, which have used differing standards to determine a vote.
Under questioning by Mr. Boies, Judge Burton said that despite such effort, there were still 3,300 ballots set aside on which the board could not determine a vote -- the very ballots that the Democrats want Judge Sauls to count.
We found such a violation when individual votes within the same state were weighted unequally, but we have never before called into question the substantive standard by which a state determines that a vote has been legally cast.
"But it will evolve with a majority vote determining stuff.
