People: I'm thinking Freakonomics here. Statistics. Human behavior
patterns. You know, Science!
Thus far I've heard only rants on religion, stupidity, and probably
bad spelling.
Is there *any* reason for the close vote (especially in the 2000 2004
2008 elections).
Here are a few possibilities:
- Parties form attractors.
- Classism.
- Single Issue voters.
- Marketing to a tie.
- The Central Limit Theorem.
This is especially interesting seeing how the rest of the world is so
*hugely* for Obama. What's different about us? And don't tell me
Europeans are smarter than us, they aren't. Different, yes. But they
elect assholes as often as we do.
I heard an interesting talk about how historians look at this:
http://radioopensource.org/a-longer-view-of-2008-historian-gordon-wood/
One of his points is that: "I think that all of these candidates will
find that they have been carried along by forces that they can
scarcely understand."
-- Owen
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