My guess is that it has something to do with income levels...but that s just a guess. After just doing my taxes, I think you had to make under a certain amount to receive the stimulus checks, so if most of those republican districts have people who make a shitload of money (or at least, on average, those districts had higher incomes than the democratic districts, then it make sense) It also looks like, from the comments, that this site is part of the tinfoil hat club.
Eric -----Original Message----- From: Robert Munn [mailto:cfmuns...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 12:09 PM To: cf-community Subject: Democratic districts received almost double stimulus award as Republican Now I wonder how that happened? http://biggovernment.com/vderugy/2010/03/26/politics-democratic-stimulus-hau l-is-almost-double-republicans/ "based on my new analysis of the Recovery.org data, Democratic districts are getting 1.8 times more money on average than Republican districts. Using Recovery.gov data, and cleaning it up seriously to be able to use it, we find that Republican districts are getting on average $260.6 million in stimulus awards while democratic districts are getting on average $471.5 million. The average is award per district is $385.9 million. Interestingly, my data also confirms that the stimulus funds are not allocated based on unemployment rates or even variations in unemployment rates. So basically, if the administration believes that government spending can create jobs, the allocation of the funds doesn't show it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:314197 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
