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9 November 2004

More Votes Than Reagan

So it's President Bush. OK. In absolute terms, more people voted for him than for Ronald Reagan who received 54 million votes at his peak in 1984. And since we're all trying to figure out what this says about the will of the American people, and since I always try to provide information for the common good here on this web site, I'd like to mention a few more things that over 54 million Americans did recently:

Saw The Passion of the Christ
Saw Shrek 2
Bought or read a Harry Potter book
Drank alcohol
Saw an episode of Survivor
Owned a gun
Owned a copy of Michael Jackson's Thriller (ok, not so recently)
Breathed air graded "F" by the American Lung Association
Attended an arts event
Rode a bike for recreation
Didn't regularly get a good night's sleep
Asked themselves what's up with Sam Donaldson's hair (I assume)
Lived in one of America's 200 largest cities
Owned a computer connected to the Internet
Bought travel services on the Internet
Lost their electricity for a full day
Went to church
Went to church regularly
Voted for John Kerry

I hope this helps bring the Everyamerican into sharper focus. Because I aim to please.

[These stats were Googled and are probably suspect. But they're in the ballpark.]

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Reader Comments

November 10, 2004, 05:43 AM

girish

guilty on only a very limited number of counts.

(including michael jackson's "thriller"...).

November 11, 2004, 08:10 AM

Darren

Great stuff, Rob. Now that the initial bout of depression has subsided, I'm taking more and more consolation from the fact that 55 million people voted to remove Bush. Looking over data from elections in the 80s (Reagan collected 525 electoral votes in '84!), I feel somewhat less pessimistic about our contemporary "values."

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