Good article on the loony from Alaska who may just make 2012 an interesting election. One thing in this article that supports my running discontent with stats: 37% of the US thinks she is qualified. Now, this number is believable because it is an opinion number (which, ultimately, all are). It is more revealing to me that more than 2/3 of the electorate think a person with a two years of governorship experience, a failed campaign that she contributed to by going "rogue" and ignoring the discipline McCain was preaching, a beauty queen, and a woman who makes questionable choices as do her children would be ready for the presidency.
People, these are your neighbors. Next time you are at the grocery store, 1 out of every 3, or more likely 3 our of every 9 people in that line with you believe she could be a president (of course, 8 out of 10 Americans believe in angels, so that should tell you something). This stat proves my point inversely: those people also have opinions about other serious matters, like bombing Iran, whether Iraq and Al Qaeda were tied together, whether abortion should be legal, whether dinosaurs existed before humans, whether the earth is 5,000 or billions of years old...why should I care what they have to say? Their vote should be limited to American Idol where they can do no harm.
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Well, I shop at Trader Joe's so that number is probably closer to 1 out of 9...Thankfully!
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