Friday, December 12, 2008

Some unreported stats about the 2008 election

Underground Conservative reports:
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…”
Imagine that.