Condolences to the world and the minority of sane Americans - Page 20

11-07-2004, 12:16 AM

On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 23:10:38 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, arranged some
electrons, so they looked like this :

... On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 23:07:44 +0100, Magda
... <> wrote:
...
... >On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 22:42:50 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, arranged some
... >electrons, so they looked like this :
... >
... >
... > ... I suggest you plonk him.
... >
... >Done many months (actually more than a year) ago. Why ?
...
... I guess for the same reason, now as then.

What makes you think that I deplonked this... thing ?

11-07-2004, 12:21 AM

In article <w4SdnQRAlqFAmBDcRVn->,
(Miguel Cruz) wrote:

    >
    > That's not really my point. There is something about states with high
    > levels
    > of income and education that leads them to vote democratic. What is it?

Sanity???

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11-07-2004, 12:54 AM

    > ... There is something about states with high levels of income and
education that leads them to vote democratic. What is it?

Higher levels of income and education

"Miguel Cruz" <> wrote in message
news:w4SdnQRAlqFAmBDcRVn-...
    > Jonathan Smith <> wrote:
    > > (Miguel Cruz) wrote:
    > >> Jonathan Smith <> wrote:
    > >>> You go ahead and pick two similarly sized states with similar rankings
    > >>> on income and education, pick six counties in each that are of
    > >>> reasonable size, three that are predominately Republican and three
    > >>> that voted predominately Democratic (at least 10% different than the
    > >>> statewide numbers would be nice) and ten tell me again how rich
    > >>> educated people vote Democratic.
    > >>
    > >> Here you are just shopping for favorable levels of aggregation as well.
    > >
    > > Not at all - I gave Paul the choice.
    > >
    > > County demogrpahics are more homogeneous than state demographics and
    > > by selecting widely divergent counties in terms of political
    > > orientation further reduces bias. The metric I use is much more
    > > reliable statistically than Pauls.
    > That's not really my point. There is something about states with high
levels
    > of income and education that leads them to vote democratic. What is it?
    > miguel
    > --
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11-07-2004, 12:56 AM

Following up to erilar

    >> That's not really my point. There is something about states with high
    >> levels
    >> of income and education that leads them to vote democratic. What is it?
    >Sanity???

I'll settle for that.

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11-07-2004, 01:00 AM

    > I plan on spending next summerin Portugal and Spain and I plan on taking
my GWB shirts and buttons. I doubt anyone will say anything.

They very likely won't... and it is highly unlikely they will to your face.
Both country's people tend to be far more courteous to guests sensibilities
[though, in my experience, the Portuguese are even more courteous than the
Spanish] than guests tend to be to those of their hosts.

"ARKADYA" <> wrote in message
news:...
    > >>> making the same mistake twice? Perhaps Americans will need "I
    > >>>> voted Kerry" baseball caps!
    > I plan on spending next summerin Portugal and Spain and I plan on taking
my GWB
    > shirts and buttons. I doubt anyone will say anything.
    > Never Forgive, Never Forget
    > 9-11-01

11-07-2004, 08:41 AM

On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 02:16:30 +0100, Magda
<> wrote:

    >On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 23:10:38 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, arranged some
    >electrons, so they looked like this :
    > ... On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 23:07:44 +0100, Magda
    > ... <> wrote:
    > ...
    > ... >On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 22:42:50 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, arranged some
    > ... >electrons, so they looked like this :
    > ... >
    > ... >
    > ... > ... I suggest you plonk him.
    > ... >
    > ... >Done many months (actually more than a year) ago. Why ?
    > ...
    > ... I guess for the same reason, now as then.
    >What makes you think that I deplonked this... thing ?

I didn't know you had plonked him, when I suggested that he should be
plonked.

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11-07-2004, 08:41 AM

On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 01:56:22 +0000, The Reids
<> wrote:

    >Following up to erilar
    >>> That's not really my point. There is something about states with high
    >>> levels
    >>> of income and education that leads them to vote democratic. What is it?
    >>Sanity???
    >I'll settle for that.

Sorry Mike, there's none left :-)

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Martin

11-08-2004, 03:22 PM

(Jonathan Smith) wrote in message news:> What's even better, though, is that under a Bush adminisatration, more
    > people will be able to afford to travel irrespective of their income
    > or education.
    >
    > Gee.
    >
    > js

And hopefully they'll learn something when they do.