so this is indeed interesting. no wonder the dems want to do away with the electoral college.
On Jan 14, 6:24 am, Ohio mark <[email protected]> wrote: > Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. > Paul , > Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the > Presidential > election: > Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29 > Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 > Republicans: 2,427,000 > Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million > Republicans: 143 million > Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: > Democrats: 13.2 > Republicans: 2.1 > > Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory > Republican > won by Republicans was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying > citizens > of the country. > Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in > government-owned tenements and living off various forms of > government > welfare. > Professor Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between > the > "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of > democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population > already > having reached the "governmental dependency" phase. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
