123 (Butch Ammon) wrote in message ...
I saw this on another internet forum and it spoke volumes about the 2000
election. My first thought was of good ol' Harry and how he did anything and
everything for Gore to try to win the election. This is solid proof that Bush
won. End of story. Case closed.

{wildly pumps fist in air} Ha! I finally finally got you Harry. The below
posting will bring you to your knees. You will then finally admit to all on
"wrecked.boats" that you were wrong. Say it... Say it.... "Okay, okay, I'm
sorry, I was wrong. You were right." HA HA HA HA!!!!!! {pumps fist in air
again and hollers "YES"!}

Butch Ammon

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Sorry to interrupt your victory dance, but this is bogus. :-)

The only parts of it that are true are the "population of counties"
and "square miles of area" (although that is counting counties as
well).

Everything else is bogus.

1. The quote from the Scottish history professor is a fabrication.
It's also historically inaccurate regardless of who said it.
See:
http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/faqs/parqs.shtml#Aftytler1

2. The quotes from "Professor Olson" are not from him. Someone made
up the murder-rate numbers and quotes and then posted them anonymously
to Usenet on 11/28/00. Within a couple days after that, someone had
affixed Professor Olson's name to the "statistics."

3. The final state count was Gore = 20, Bush = 30. There are 50
states, not 48.

4. The murder rate comparison is wrong.
The correct numbers are approximately Bush = 4.1, Gore = 6.5. Note
that if you compare on a more equal population-density-basis, this
difference essentially goes away (e.g., Gore=7.5, Bush=7.0 for
counties with 300 people/km^2).

See:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/tyler.asp

5. The sentiment expressed by the "quotes" from professor Olson
implies the Gore voters are largely parasites living off the hard work
of the Bush voters. This is also wrong. Comparing the demographics
of Bush and Gore voters reveals relatively few significant differences
(in education, income, etc.) other than the fact that blacks preferred
Gore about 4 to 1. Also, consider the fact that Bush won most of the
states that receive more federal funds than they pay in taxes while
Gore won most of the states that pay more than they receive. The
reasons for this aren't entirely clear, but it strains credulity to
interpret it as the "blue" states living off of the "red" states. The
data imply it's the other way around.

See:
http://psweb.sbs.ohio-state.edu/facu...cy-OSUConf.PDF

Maybe you can find another way to get Harry?

-Mike P.