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Politics Buzz A memo from 2008 McCain pollster Bill McInturff says that Ron Paul is pulling in more first-time voters than anyone else. Also: “Ron Paul is not a Republican.”
Politics Buzz Mitt Romney beat his 2008 results in New Hampshire today by picking up the support of wealthy voters. Romney gained 4% from voters earning less than $100k between the 2008 and 2012 elections. He gained 14% from people making more than $100k, according to CNN exit polls.
Culture Buzz Forty-four percent of Americans still don't know what Mitt Romney's actual first name is. Do you?
Politics Buzz Even though they are still in the positive territory with Hispanics, this is bad news for Team Obama.
Politics Buzz The results are shocking, I know.
Politics Buzz The Daily Show looks the new debt crisis congressional “supercommittee” and the “amazing powers” they posses. At least find out how Sen. John “The Trickler” Kyl got his superhero name. (via thedailyshow.com)
Politics Buzz Bachman's popularity in Iowa is now in overdrive as her numbers have soared past Mitt Romney according to The Iowa Republican. Although early poll results such as this aren't indicative of too much, the reality of a Bachman Republican nomination does seem to becoming more and more real by the day… (via nymag.com)
Politics Buzz Barack Obama refuses to “spike the football,” so we'll do it for him. This list is in no particular order and by no means comprehensive. Achievement unlocked: Reelection.
Politics Buzz USA Today/Gallup poll asked Americans their opinions about the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, and Good displayed the info succinctly in a nice infographic. It seems that most Americans approve that bin Laden was killed.
Here's a recent poll from some conservative family values website. Sounds about right.
Yiiiiikes. It's 2011!!!!!
Culture Buzz 18% of Americans believe the sun revolves around the earth. 18%!!!!!!!
A few simple suggestions for the folks in the news media from someone who's taken a basic statistics course. According to my gut feeling, only 55% of readers who find this Geeky will also find it LOL.
Politics Buzz Early indications show that many states are shattering voter turnout records today. Here’s a roundup of reports from some key swing states.
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Yahoo’s most emailed story: “Counting down to Election Day, Barack Obama appears within reach of becoming the nation’s first black president.” I’ll really, really miss Sarah Palin news if Obama wins. :(
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AP - Republican John McCain on Sunday dismissed the sour poll numbers that show him trailing in his White House race against Democrat Barack Obama and said his campaign is “doing fine.”
Tech Buzz Of 6500 professional men surveyed by Sheraton Hotels, 35 percent of them preferred their Blackberries to their wives. Immediately, the wives responded, “Well maybe if you’d learn how to use your thumbs at the same time in the bedroom, we wouldn’t have this problem!” (Ba dum bum!)
A cool visualization technique adds up the polls in all the states, shows the margin of error in the data, and let’s you see at a glance the chances of each candidate getting the 270 electoral college votes need to win on election day. Right now the future of our country is entirely within the margin of error. Makes you feel safe, doesn’t it?
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