Post Election Polls & Results: The Numbers Thread

[Saint]

So, americans will expect more Terrorists attacks, more death toll in Iraq, more joblessness, more taxes, more insecurity ?

 

[Gokul43201]

No, except for the death toll.

What's your point ?

 

[Saint]

what is bush's plan to Solve the problem of iraq?
how long your army will be there?
till you get all their oil ?

 

[chroot]

This is off-topic, Saint. Again. If you'd like me to split it to a new thread, let me know.

- Warren

 

[Saint]

America can never be World Police,
if you interfere with people's domestic affair more,
you will get more retaliation.

Don't try to split Taiwan from China,
if you continue to sell Taiwan weapon,
China will fight back with stealing more jobs from america.
Don't always critisize china's human right record,
take a look of your own policy on the black people, are they treated fairly?

Imperialism is not fit for all people, China has its own policy, culture, value etc.
Try to understand Islam first before calling people terrorists.

Osama is not dead, he is watching you!

 

[Gokul43201]

Saint, if you want to rant, start your own thread. (I say this knowing it will be ignored)



I've come across a strartling statistic (calling it a statistic is a stretch, I've only got 5 data points out of thousands), and call me cynical, or a sore loser, or whatever, but :

In Columbus, Ohio, the number of polling machines per polling place seems to vary directly with the distance to campus or inner city neighborhoods.

My advisor's polling place (in a largely red precinct) had 10 polling machines. The queue never extended outside the building.

Near campus, polling places had 6, 6 and 5 machines in 3 different places. Lines often stretched around the block.

One downtown location had only 3 machines, and this place had to stay open beyond closing time.

Now I'm curious about the number of polling machines per voter at different polling places in medium/large cities...

Anyone else have numbers for me ?

 

[russ_watters]

Guess how many times Kerry mentioned his Purple Hearts during the Convention ?

You missed my point. The SBV brought up the purple heart thing because it was something to argue about. But to people who cared about the issue (me), it wasn't the purple hearts that mattered, it was what he did after the war. Kerry didn't realize that and focused his rebuttal on the medals issue. In fairness though, there wasn't much Kerry could have done to convince me he'd changed from the man he was shortly after Vietnam (and indeed, he may well be proud of that).

As for talking about his Vietnam service during the convention...here are the excerpts of his speech that are (in any way) related to his service.

His speech was a long speech. He had a lot to talk about. But his first words were "Reporting for duty" and behind him was a 10 foot photo of him in his uniform (which was there for most of the convention). His service was also mentioned by pretty much everyone else who spoke, and made-up a significant portion of his biography on his site.

His Vietnam service was an important issue and he knew it - he just didn't understand why. He thought it would give him credibility as a military leader (something democrats typically lack), but what he should have known is that the very people he would lead considered it to be a slap in the face.

Now I'm curious about the number of polling machines per voter at different polling places in medium/large cities.

I assume there are state laws regarding registered voters per machine, but I don't know -- interesting question though.

I've got some responses for Saint too, but they're OT, so...no.