Yes, we are a curious people, but please do not lump us all into the same category, especially considering less than half of voters who turned out for the 2000 Presidential election (out of roughly half of those eligible to vote[1], out of less than half the total population[2]) voted for the man. What does this mean? Well:
281,421,906 - total U.S. population in 2000 110,826,000 - total voters in 2000 39.4 - percentage of population who voted in 2000
for the discerning reader:
[1] http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/voting/p20-542/tab01.txt - roughly 54.7% of those 18+ voted in the 2000 election: 110,826,000
[2] http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/QTTable?ds_name=D&geo_id=D&qr_name=DEC_2000_SF2_U_QTP1&_lang=en - there were 281,421,906 people in 2000, meaning that 39.4% of the population voted.
For those who need help connecting the dots: Dubya was elected by less than 19.7% of the people who live in the U.S., hardly enough to call all of us Americans "backers" of his administration.
How's that for some food for thought...
cheers, david
p.s. another good source of info on the 2000 election is http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/p20-542.pdf
Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote:
Americans are a curious people: backing an administration that tells
lies, not one lie but many.
