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President-elect Barack Obama actually carried 28 states (and the District of Columbia), not 20 as claimed in the message. Sen. John McCain carried only 22 states, not 30.Joseph Olson is a real Professor at Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul Minnesota but he did not write this, according to his faculty bio page on the university site. Olson called it "bogus" in his disclaimer and said that the eRumor dates back to 2000 and originally was a commentary about the Bush/Gore election which quoted an 1800's Scottish philosopher Alexander Tyler.
The total area of states won by Obama is actually 1,483,702 square miles, significantly more than the 580,000 stated by the e-mail. McCain’s states have an area of 2,310,315 square miles, not the 2,427,000 claimed.
The population of counties carried by Obama is just under 183 million, not the 127 million claimed. McCain carried counties with a total population of just under 119 million, far fewer than claimed in this message.
The murder rate for counties carried by Obama was 6.56 per 100,000 inhabitants, less than half the rate claimed in the message. The rate for counties carried by McCain was 3.60 per 100,000, much higher than claimed in the message.
"чем абсурднее ложь, тем усерднее ее повторяют"
This hoax goes back eight years, when an earlier version began to circulate following the bitterly disputed 2000 presidential election. Snopes.com, a site devoted to debunking urban myths, took that one apart at the time, noting that Prof. Olson denied authorship and that some factual claims didn’t check out. A new version went around for a time after the 2004 election, and whoever wrote the 2008 version of the e-mail didn’t even bother to make up new "stats," but simply substituted the words "Democrats" and "Republicans" where the names "Gore" and "Bush" had appeared.
The origin of the population and square-mile figures used in the 2008 version, in fact, is this USA Today map of the 2000 election results. It shows 143 million people in counties won by George W. Bush and 127 million in counties won by Al Gore, for example. Of course elections are won by electoral votes not counties won. And the fact is that in 2008 the counties carried by Obama were far more populous than those carried by McCain.
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"America is too great for small dreams." ~ Ronald Reagan
Разница между республиканцами и демократами, наверное, не только в идеологии и отсутствии/наличии мозгов...There's also intellectual honesty. When Obama lost the debate dems had the guts to admit it...However yesterday Romney looked like a shlimazl yet still "he kicked Obama's ass" according to some...
I've said this before and will say it again...how can you have an intelligent discussion when we can't agree on the universe?![]()
Может, не стоит тебе унижать себя такими примитивными заявлениями?
Not Romney, Obama has been kicking his own ass for 4 years. You can accuse Romney of inconsistency (fairly so!), but actions of Obama speak louder than Romney's words, you know.However yesterday Romney looked like a shlimazl yet still "he kicked Obama's ass" according to some...
Got news for you, my friend –people differ in their opinions. And what kind of discussion are you looking for, when you do agree with someone, what would be the point? "Христос воскресе- воистину воскресе", "Салям алейкум-алейкум ассялям". Ты это зовешь дискуссией? Слаба же твоя позиция, если ты дискутируешь только с единомышленникамиI've said this before and will say it again...how can you have an intelligent discussion when we can't agree on the universe?![]()
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"America is too great for small dreams." ~ Ronald Reagan
No, at least we can agree on the color of the sky...Got news for you, my friend –people differ in their opinions. And what kind of discussion are you looking for, when you do agree with someone, what would be the point? "Христос воскресе- воистину воскресе", "Салям алейкум-алейкум ассялям". Ты это зовешь дискуссией? Слаба же твоя позиция, если ты дискутируешь только с единомышленниками
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