Actually when you get out west like where I live things tend to lean more to the right. A friend of mine from college ran for state Rep as an R and I was surprised when he won. I thought he did a pretty good job, went to work every day at least which is more than you can say for most of them.He lost re-election to a D who is a turd... -Curt
From: Rich Thomas via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 9:33 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Tampa Is Worcester a Dem stronghold? Oh wait, Massachusetts... never mind... --R (who used to live in the only R town in Mass) On 1/12/16 6:26 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > Turns out both he and I were wrong. Worcester has more like 185,000 people > and the rate for 2013 was 9 per 100,000 so maybe 18 total. Thats still more > than twice the average US rate but I'd suggest that the average rate is > skewed down by lower population areas.NYC is a shining start though at 4 per > 100,000, Chicago is high at more than 15 with Detroit leading at 529 per > 100,000. > Looking down the list Worcester isn't even kind of in the running... > -Curt > > > From: Mitch Haley via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: Mitch Haley <mi...@mitchellhaley.com> > Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 4:22 PM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Tampa > > > >> On January 12, 2016 at 11:53 AM Curt Raymond via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> >> Read the crime stories anywhere, the newspapers are all in the business of >> scaring you. The idea being to get you to buy more newspapers to keep up with >> all the scary news. >> >> >> My wife's grandfather once told me "You know there were 70 murders in >> Worcester last year?" There are like 200,000 people in Worcester so the >> murder >> rate is very small... > Actually, that's about 10x the national average. > If 330 million people kept up that average, we'd have 100k murders a year > nationwide. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com