> Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul,
> Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2008
> Presidential election:
>
> -Number of States won by: Democrats: 20; Republicans: 30
>
> -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 was
> mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens. Democrat territory > mostly
> encompassed those citizens living in rented or government-owned
> tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."
> 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.
And why is it these statistics were not reported? All together now -- MEDIA BIAS!!!
I's like to see the same group of statistics for the 2000 election.