These stats don't square with the reality that Gore won the popular vote by
over 300,000.
They also don't mention that in the USA, no one knows where the most guns
are, because they are largely not recorded and registered. Murder rates
and every other crime rate do, however, correlate with political
affiliation, for one reason. Poverty also correlates with crime. This is
a perfect example of why we should (1) mistrust statistics that have not
been verified, (2) ask what's not represented in the sample, and (3)
determine the motives of the presenter.
BTW, I'm no Gore fan. He's very much the capitalist candidate. But the
Republicans are fascists, and I dislike fascists immensley. The partial
Republican oppostion to the NATO aggression against Yugoslavia was a
partisan position, and it's important to note that the Bush boys, one and
all, are all for NATO expansion and the liberal application of military
force to recalcitrant potential colonies.
At 05:13 PM 12/6/00 +0100, you wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 8:12 PM
>Subject: A few interesting statistics
>>> http://www.Federalist.com
>>
>>
>> ______--------********O********--------______
>> FOR THE RECORD
>>
>> Here are a few interesting statistics from our breakdown map of
>> counties won by George Bush and Albert Gore
>> (http://www.federalist.com/e2000.html) as compiled by law professor
>> Joseph Olson. The last item is, perhaps, the most telling.
>>
>> 2,434
>> 677
>>
>> 143 million
>> 127 million
>>
>> Square miles of country won by Bush: 2,427,000
>> 580,000
>>
>> 29
>> 19
>>
>> And now for the most remarkable finding....
>>
>> 0.1
>> Average Murder per 100,000 residents in counties won by Gore: 13.2
>>
>> The Federalist's crack staff of researchers found one more interesting
>> fact that might help explain these disparate murder rates. Gun
>> ownership in the counties won by Mr. Bush is much higher than in the
>> counties won by Mr. Gore!
>>
>> =====================================================
>>
>> * Veritas Vos Liberabit *
>>
>>
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struggle the form appropriate to the political situation."
-Vo Nguyen Giap
"Rather than seeking comparabilities in statistical terms among what are
all too often superficial features of different situations, comparabilities
must be sought at the level of determinate mechanisms, at the level of
processes that are generally hidden from easy view."
-Eleanor Burke Leacock
"Every day one has to struggle that this love to a living humanity
transform itself into concrete acts, in acts that serve as examples, as
motivation."
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