Gory Stats

[In_His_Shadow]

Interesting:

Counties won by Gore: 677
> Counties won by Bush: 2,434
>
> Population of counties won by Gore: 127 million
> Population of counties won by Bush: 143 million
>
> Square miles of country won by Gore: 580,000
> Square miles of country won by Bush: 2,427,000
>
> States won by Gore: 19
> States won by Bush: 29
>
> Now Professor Joseph Olson of the Hamline University School of Law in St.
> Paul Minnesota has produced another interesting new statistic. Professor
> Olson looked up the crime statistics for all of these counties and came up
> with this:
>
> Average Murder per 100,000 residents in counties won by Gore: 13.2
> Average Murder per 100,000 residents in counties won by Bush: 2.1
>
CJ

[RoadRunner]

That last one is pretty goofy. If he carried big cities like Los Angeles, New York City, Miami, Chicago, etc., they would obviously have higher crime rates.

[PaulGoodman]

I find that stat hard to believe because of Texas' high crime rate.

[blinc]

I imagine if you wanted to waste the time you could find out weird stats about the states Bush won in. It's just a matter of what a person chooses to look at, in favor of one party over the other. Wonder how many "weird" stats weren't published about the states Bush won in?

[In_His_Shadow]

This was something that was just e-mailed to me and I thought I would pass it along. Guess I shouldn't have.
I personally didn't waste anytime looking up anything. Again sorry for posting it.

[blinc]

I could tell it was an email by the > marks... I just meant that whoever wrote it up, if someone else wanted to waste their time (I sure don't) they could probably look up a lot of weird stats that wouldn't look so good for Bush. hmmm... or maybe I could just make some up? {toothy} Could I? huh? Puhlllleeeeeeeaassseee? I could come up with some doozies I bet!! *evil grin*

[Debby]

I personally am a Bush person...lol....so I found your thread interesting, please don't apologize. I also have friends who are Gore fans...we clash on that...but you know, if all my friends thought and felt the same way as me, it would be a lot less interesting in this world...lol....so since we are all friends here, it is okay to expresss our various opinions, and also fight back...;) So don't apologize, or feel bad. we all have a right to our opinions. (No matter which side were on) :)

[blinc]

Very well said Debby. Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely! Hey, are ya gonna run for president? I'd vote for ya! {toothy}

[Debby]

awwww shucks.... *kicks ground* how sweet of ya! :)