6 Responses to “October 25, 2012”

1. Indy Data Lover
   

   25. Oct, 2012

   No, no, no. I am an Independent data analyst. I applied this technique for the Florida presidential race for 2000, 2004, and 2008, out of curiosity, and the trend is as one should expect – The Republican candidate leads the vote percentage (cumulative or not) in the smaller precincts by a huge margin (65% – 35%), and the gap closes once the more populated precincts are included in the tally since they are more Democratic. There is no evidence in the Florida General Election of this type of trend that shows a higher cumulative percent for the democrat in smaller precincts vs. the larger ones… This information is BOGUS, unfortunately. And, in general, if a trend is different in rural vs. urban areas, it should not be surprising, it is how it goes every time… Republican in rural, Democrat in urban. Plain and simple.

2. billyjoe
   

   26. Oct, 2012

   Good job at deciphering the right wing B.S. : Keep on dropping the hammer on their Dogma !

3. M
   

   26. Oct, 2012

   You should link the follow up data in this article. The video just says to “go and look” but I would be more inclined to do so if you provided the link.

4. Kathy Woodhouse
   

   27. Oct, 2012

   Hi… Thank you for your program. I am so intolerant of intolerant bigots, that I have almost rendered myself unemployable. My sense of humor could only take me so far… Your videos help me to laugh at their dangerous nonsense again. Thanks.

5. Christina
   

   28. Oct, 2012

   I appreciate your show because you offer reasonable opinions, and it’s not just yours, alone. Sometimes your co-hosts differ in opinion which enables the viewer to see an issue from different angles. But your politics and views on bigotry (and ignorance in general) are always in line with my own views. Too many times I have lit up a YT comment section where racism is being flung left & right, and it still never fails to astonish me how the words, the phrases, the ideology of racism has NEVER CHANGED. Arguing with that lot is like going back to the South in the 1930′s–where every defamatory statement against blacks, etc., is violent and genocidal in nature!! These people are frickin’ scary! And it turns out, my own state of CO. is largely discriminatory AND republican (Good God I cannot even HEAR the word “republican” without wanting to punch a “Christian” in the face!!…. ha ha… no offense, anyone.) I was shocked to learn this about my community when I became old enough to vote, but then I grew up in Grand Junction at a time when not a single black person lived there; not until the early 90′s did it become common to see black families/individuals in any given area.

6. @FLSqueezed
   

   28. Oct, 2012

   To IndyDataLover: Florida is NOT the state that should be used to formulate any kind of “rule of thumb” for voting patterns. The evidence of widespread corruption amongst Republicans is most painfully obvious and that affects even any data you could gather about Democrats. The reason we voted for Gore, Hillary and Obama but have always had a Republican legislature and Governor is simply because the Florida legislature has hijacked the ability to redraw district lines in their own favor… what is known as “gerrymandering”. They don’t get as much say when it comes to Federal districts. Florida is ACTUALLY a blue state, not a “swing state” but Republicans will not admit that because they’d have to explain their presence in our legislature.