Dick Durbin vs the Constitution

[leftysergeant]

[qimg]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/USpercentagesbystate.png[/qimg]

Has it occurred to you that you might find the highest concentration of rational people in the most densely-populated areas? Thar=t siciopaths and idiots prefer the wide open spaces? That levels of education effect which way an individual is likely to vote?

Now, take that map you just posted. How red are those areas in which the most people live? How red arte those areas in which the average person has a reasonably high level of education?

I am going to find the highest ground I can find while the world sorts this out.

 

[mysteronyx]

Here's a graphic and list of the most densely populated states. Perhaps leftysergeant is on to something.

http://en.classora.com/reports/t83618/ranking-of-the-usas-most-densely-populated-states

 

[Seismosaurus]

Yes, it could.

Then you and Dick Durbin agree.

What was the point of this thread again?

And did you ever come up with a day on which Obama has done no work?

 

[C_Felix]

Just curious about BAC's take on Alex Haige and the 'Check your constituions, I'm in charge now" thingy.

 

[leftysergeant]

Here's a graphic and list of the most densely populated states. Perhaps leftysergeant is on to something.

[qimg]http://static.classora.com/files/uploads/images/rankings/836/main.jpg[/qimg]

http://en.classora.com/reports/t83618/ranking-of-the-usas-most-densely-populated-states

I think you might find something else interesting if you could overlay that same map with one showing average levels of education.

 

[mysteronyx]

Education levels in the United States

http://www.edgetech-us.com/map/EduLvls.htm

Here's a map of the % the population with less than 9 years of education. That means that at most they graduated from 8th grade.

It doesn't entirely match up with the other maps (check Nevada, California, and Wyoming), but there is a general overlap.

 

[NoScotsman]

Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution as now written states:
Quote:
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.

:

Wait a minute... I'm a natural citizen...and a citizen of the United States...but I wasn't these things "at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution!"!!!

hmmm.... maybe I'm reading that wrong....

 

[lomiller]

Democrats continue to hold sizable leads in traditional Democratic strongholds. In the four most populous blue states -- New York, New Jersey, California and Illinois -- Democrats enjoy a double-digit advantage in party identification.

Funny you should bring up those 4 states, because all of them receive less in the way of federal spending compared to the taxes they pay.

New Jersey revives only $0.61 in spending for every dollar they pay in taxes
Illinois revives only $0.75 in spending for every dollar they pay in taxes
California revives only $0.78 in spending for every dollar they pay in taxes
New York revives only $0.79 in spending for every dollar they pay in taxes

Due to their population, however these 4 states end up with the highest total $ transferred out of their economies. Even if you go strictly by per capita number states you listed as Democratic still pull in most of the high number

http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/266.html

This doesn't necessarily mean Republican lawmakers have been punishing them for voting Democrat, more likely its just that Democratic States are more economically successful and therefor have less reliance on the federal government.