November 08, 2006
November 06, 2006
Ooh, lookie, I did a thingie!
Only, it was a lot of work, so you have to go somewhere else to see it (it's okay - it will not hurt you, I think).
Head on over there to check it out now!
It's a choose your own adventure hypertext fiction piece I wrote in the fourth grade with a friend. You'll like it. Probably.
Head on over there to check it out now!
It's a choose your own adventure hypertext fiction piece I wrote in the fourth grade with a friend. You'll like it. Probably.
November 01, 2006
U.S. Citizens Vote
I'm sure you're aware of an election coming up. That's right, there are still elections, even when we're not voting for the president. I wanted to share some interesting numbers from 2000 and 2004.
The exit poll statistics, from CNN, for the year 2000, for the presidential election:
Republicans voting Democrat: 8 per cent
Democrats voting Republican: 11 per cent
So that's how things were in the year 2000.
Now let's look at 2004, still from CNN:
Republicans voting Democrat: 6 per cent
This I find hard to believe. The number of Republicans voting Democrat went DOWN? Never before this election had I ever heard a Republican say he or she would vote Democrat - but during this election I heard it from more Republicans than I can count. They were fed up. They were Republicans, sure, but they were sick of Bush.
Democrats voting Republican: 11 per cent
Bogus! Democrats voted for Bush at the same rate as 2004? No way. I don't buy it. Bogus.
So...what happened? Are the exit polls simply bogus? Are Democrats that stupid? Do Republicans feel pressured into claiming that they are anti-Bush when in fact they are not? (And if so, if there is that much of a consensus that Bush is evil, why is he still in office?)
The exit poll statistics, from CNN, for the year 2000, for the presidential election:
Republicans voting Democrat: 8 per cent
Democrats voting Republican: 11 per cent
So that's how things were in the year 2000.
Now let's look at 2004, still from CNN:
Republicans voting Democrat: 6 per cent
This I find hard to believe. The number of Republicans voting Democrat went DOWN? Never before this election had I ever heard a Republican say he or she would vote Democrat - but during this election I heard it from more Republicans than I can count. They were fed up. They were Republicans, sure, but they were sick of Bush.
Democrats voting Republican: 11 per cent
Bogus! Democrats voted for Bush at the same rate as 2004? No way. I don't buy it. Bogus.
So...what happened? Are the exit polls simply bogus? Are Democrats that stupid? Do Republicans feel pressured into claiming that they are anti-Bush when in fact they are not? (And if so, if there is that much of a consensus that Bush is evil, why is he still in office?)
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