Does this acurately represent the difference between Republican voters & Democrat voters?

Question

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:
Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million;
Bush: 143 million;
Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush:
2,427,000
States won by: Gore: 19 Bush: 29
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Gore: 13.2 Bush: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the tax-paying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off government welfare..."

Answer 1

It works for me. But the dems on here like links. They think internet sources are credible.

Answer 2

Your professor is an idiot. Metropolitan areas, that pay more taxes than they receive back from the country, and have a higher intellect per capita, were overwhelmingly democratic. New York, Boston, and California are prime examples. The rural areas, which receive government assistance like crazy, went Republican. Although this is more due to "bible belt" influence than financial.

What a dumbass professor. You should switch schools, your education money is being totally wasted.

Answer 3

Sorry you believe all this stuff. You can also say in most of the states won by Bush, it was proven those states had a lower income then the states won by Democrats, they also had more far right media control, and they had a lower education level then the Democratic states and bottom line that you cant disagree with, Gore won the popular vote, I don't understand why you would be saying this stuff after 6 years. So your saying the rich landowners voted for bush, we now have record inflation, record deficit, record foreclosures, a decrease of 1.5 million private sector jobs, Hundreds of thousands of jobs shipped over seas, the average family of 4 now owes about 120.000 each to the federal loan, ANYBODY with a ounce of sense knows if you have to borrow 120,000 and have nothing to show for it, your in trouble, any growth is false growth, we will have to have higher taxes to get out of this enormous debt, The Housing market is going down for the first time in 50 years, I can go on and on and on and on and on !!! For the Record, Clinton had a plus 23 million job increase in the 8 years he was in office.
Just not sure why some of you make this a US vs Them, no matter who is right, it is about the facts and about what’s good for the country.

For the Record, when you say well the Democrats are on welfare, that’s true and untrue in many ways, a fact, only a small percentage of people on welfare vote. I am a business owner, who does better then most, most of my clients are millionaires, Trust me I know many many corporate heads, doctors, Attorneys and very successful business men who are much more left leaning and democratic that myself. do your self a favor, don’t think blue collar is Democratic and white collar is Republican, that is so untrue

Answer 4

In elections that are as close as that one and the consequent ones, it has been the independents that decide them. So it doesn't amtter the motivation behind dems or reps, but rather those of us who vote based on job performance instead of party lines who decide the election. And this time, the reps lost. Not because of dems, beacues of the same people from the same coutnies, etc...that voted for Bush last time. I'd be interested to see you make the same analysis of the last election, or the next presidential election.

Answer 5

"It's a fact that the more educated people tend to vote democratic, and the people who make more than $200,000 tend to vote more republican (because republicans like to cut taxes for the rich)."

Isn't it a proven fact the higher the education level the more income one makes.

Sorry, but that lib chick is a joke.

As for your question, yes its mostly accurate with the few exceptions of liberal minded people who voted for Gore within the counties that Bush won. No coincidence here, the people with higher standards and better ethics in work and social life tend to vote Republican.

Answer 6

Wow. That sounds right to me. Also, most more educated people vote Republican. People who were raised in Democrat counties or areas tend to vote Democrat and they are proud of it. Although the Democrat Party has changed a lot since McGovern ran, a lot of people vote Democrat cause their daddy's did.

Answer 7

First, these statistics are bogus, as Snopes.com points out.

Second, even if these statistics were correct, they are meaningless, since states, counties, and square miles don't vote for presidents, PEOPLE do. 5000 square miles of West Texas flatland with one person in it still only gets one vote. One acre of NYC high-rise might get 2000 votes.

So not only are your 'statistics' wrong, they are pointless.

Answer 8

No - that does not accurately represent the difference. I think the professor needs to compare education and income along with the other factors.

It's a fact that the more educated people tend to vote democratic, and the people who make more than $200,000 tend to vote more republican (because republicans like to cut taxes for the rich).

Answer 9

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University is not the source of any of the statistics or the text attributed to him. Professor Olson was contacted (by me) via e-mail, and he confirmed that he had no authorship or involvement in this matter. And, as Fayette Citizen editor Dave Hamrick wrote back in January 2001:
I really enjoyed one recent message that was circulated extremely widely, at least among conservatives. It gave several interesting "facts" supposedly compiled by statisticians and political scientists about the counties across the nation that voted for George Bush and the ones that voted for Al Gore in the recent election.

Supposedly, the people in the counties for Bush had more education, more income, ad infinitum, than the counties for Gore.

I didn't have time to check them all out, but I was curious about one item in particular... the contention that the murder rate in the Gore counties was about a billion times higher than in the Bush counties.

This was attributed to a Professor Joseph Olson at the Hamline University School of Law. I never heard of such a university, but went online and found it. And Prof. Olson does exist.

"Now I'm getting somewhere," I thought.

But in response to my e-mail, Olson said the "research" was attributed to him erroneously. He said it came from a Sheriff Jay Printz in Montana. I e-mailed Sheriff Printz, and guess what? He didn't do the research either, and didn't remember who had e-mailed it to him.

In other words, he got the same legend e-mailed to him and passed it on to Olson without checking it out, and when Olson passed it on, someone thought it sounded better if a law professor had done the research, and so it grew.

Who knows where it originally came from, but it's just not true.

The county-by-county murder-rate comparison presented in this piece is wrong.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), in the year 2000 the national murder rate was about 5.5 per 100,000 residents. Homicide data by county for 1999 and 2000 can be downloaded from the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NAJCD), and the counties won by Gore and Bush can be identified using the county-by-county election results made available by CNN. (The NACJD provides not only the number of reported murders for each county, but also the population for each.) The average murder rate in the counties won by Gore vs. the rate in the counties won by Bush can be determined from this data.

By calculating the murder rate for each county and then taking the averages, we find a murder rate (defined as number of murders per 100,000 residents) of about 5.2 for the "average" Gore county and 3.3 for the average Bush county. But since people, rather than counties, commit murders, a more appropriate approach is to calculate the total number of murders in the counties won by each candidate and divide that figure by the total number of residents in those counties. This more appropriate method yields the following average murder rates in counties won by each candidate:
• Gore: 6.5
• Bush: 4.1


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

Answer 10

Yes, when people say Democrats are on Welfare, it is the truth.