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To: Scumbria who wrote (122357)	12/12/2000 7:08:53 PM
From: GS_Wall Street	Respond to of 186894

OT copied from another thread OT...To paraphrase a friend of mine, statistics are a bit like a bikini ... what they reveal is interesting, but what they hide is vital. Nevertheless, I forward the following piece which challenges the Democratic claim of winning the popular vote in the Presidential election. Simply stated, if all the absentee ballots, nationwide, were counted, GWB would also have the majority national vote. It is largely irrelevant at this time, but it makes interesting conversation. Subject: INTERESTING ELECTION FACTS Draw your own conclusions..... Bush Won the Popular Vote - In many states in which the voting ran so decisively in favor of one presidential candidate or the other that the margin of victory exceeded the number of uncounted absentee ballots, following standard practice these absentee ballots were not counted and probably will never be counted even though, nation wide, they add up to many millions. Because George W. Bush nationally received a higher percentage than Gore of all the absentee ballots which were counted, if these same nationwide percentages were applied to the millions of uncounted absentee ballots, the total nationwide popular vote would swing strongly in favor of Bush by a larger margin than the current "official" tally favoring Gore. Thus if all the states followed Gore's recent admonition that, "We must count all the votes!" the popular vote tally would officially belong to Bush. Counties won by Gore: 677 Counties won by Bush: 2,434 Population of counties won by Gore: 127 million Population of counties won by Bush: 143 million Square miles of country won by Gore: 580,000 Square miles of country won by Bush: 2,427,000 States won by Gore: 19 States won by Bush: 29 Professor Joseph Olson of the Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota has produced another interesting new statistic. Professor Olson looked up the crime statistics for all of these counties and came up with the following: Average Murder Rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by Gore: 13.2 Average Murder Rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by Bush: 2.1

To: Scumbria who wrote (122357)	12/12/2000 7:12:11 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

RE:"Too bad we can't say the same for Scalia and his little piece of Sicilian politics he brought to the USSC" That sounds like a predjudicial statement to me. You don't want to get Godfather Tony Viola mad...do you. <G> Jim