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Article: BLAIR HULL'S WINNING FORMULA Confused? You're not alone. But candidate believes the formula, which one pundit says looks like genetic code, will help identify supporters
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 22, 2004
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He did it with blackjack and the financial markets. Now Democrat
M. Blair Hull is trying to turn his bid for the U.S. Senate into a
math problem.
The millionaire investor is using a mathematical formula to help
win the race, combining voters' ages, ethnicity, wealth, voting
history and other factors into a complex equation that one magazine
writer said "looked like part of the human genetic code."
The densely written theorem is a string of precise numbers carried
out to the eighth decimal place. It's designed to identify people for
Hull to target with fliers in the mail or telephone calls. Those
chores were previously handled by precinct captains, who often
flunked high school math.
"The ...