Interesting stats

[LotoSteve]

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St.Paul, Minnesota , points out facts of 2008 Presidential election:
Number of States won by:

Democrats: 19
Republicans: 29

Square miles of land won by:
Democrats: 580,000
Republicans: 2,427,000

Population of counties won by:
Democrats: 127 million
Republicans: 143 million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Democrats: 13.2
Republicans: 2.1

Professor Olson adds:
"In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican won by Republicans
was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.
Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in
government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government
welfare. Professor Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already
having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then we can say goodbye
to the USA in fewer than five years.

 

[Wrinkleface]

:willy_nilly:

 

[Tommy Gun]

This is a map of the house "health care reform bill" vote...see any similarities?

And the investment graph from another thread should give you an idea of where we are headed...

 

[Sea-Dated]

I am proud to say that I live in the only state on that map that does not have a single blue county in it.

 

[Ted]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/athenian.asp

However snopes wants to shade it, there is some truth to all of it and as long as the uninformed are warehoused in the "projects" and tiny little apartments on top of each other we will continue on the great divide.

 

[Trim'd Up]

I seen the exact same email floating around after the 2000 election. I think it is probably BS numbers although I bet the map is pretty damn close.

 

[clayinaustin]

We should pass a law that says "if you don't pay any Federal taxes, you can't vote in Federal elections."

 

[Wrinkleface]

We should pass a law that says "if you don't pay any Federal taxes, you can't vote in Federal elections."

OK!:cuss:

 

[LaughingCat]

Overlay the 'lights at night' map with the top of this thread. It's obvious that each US citizen is not equidistant from each other. Population centers will have more concentrated amounts of people who vote red and blue.

 

[Perlmudder]

Overlay the 'lights at night' map with the top of this thread. It's obvious that each US citizen is not equidistant from each other. Population centers will have more concentrated amounts of people who vote red and blue.

Actually a very cool picture. I wrote an assignment on a similar picture of how you can pick out technology corridors such as Toronto-Buffalo-Rochester, NY-NJ-CT-MA, and the Coast of Cali.

 

[Wobble]

We should pass a law that says "if you don't pay any Federal taxes, you can't vote in Federal elections."

Thats going to exclude most of the super rich

 

[Tommy Gun]

Thats going to exclude most of the super rich

Don't you mean Democrats?

 

[fund razor]

Somebody show me a map proving that conservatives own the guns, please.

 

[Wobble]

Don't you mean Democrats?

No I mean the people with millions hidden in offshore accounts and those that can afford teams of lawyers to design tax shelters for their clients.

 

[Tommy Gun]

No I mean the people with millions hidden in offshore accounts and those that can afford teams of lawyers to design tax shelters for their clients.

Hmmm, seems to me that most of the tax cheats I read about over the last year are all in the Obama administration. (Excluding Daschle who they tried to get in.)