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Thursday, June 25, 2009

That Explains a Few Things

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law - Regards the 2008 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
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Republicans: 2.1


"In aggregate, the map of the territory Republicans won 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..."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I hate to break it to you but factcheck says no.

http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/whats_the_deal_with_prof_joseph_olsons.html

As does the disclaimer he put on his homepage. http://law.hamline.edu/node/784

Bummer