[SOC] IQ vs politics

Wed May 5 11:22:01 2004

Jim,

The view of mismanagement was not mine, but that of my staunch Democrat
friend, a scholar of such things.

For the record, I'm a fan of neither party.  From my perspective, neither
party cares a rat's ass about the general population beyond what they can
steal for their own party faithful, whilst scheming to screw the other
party.  The party faithful are so self-righteous that they never question
their own rhetoric and revel in the fumes.  They both insult my intelligence
with painful regularity.

My own assessment of the Florida fiasco is that the Democrats got beat at
their own game and that is the major reason they continue whining and
sniveling about the outcome, blaming somebody else and not learning (or
asking) anything about why the country was so evenly divided and remains
that way.  The Republicans might ask themselves the same question, BTW.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Reicher, James" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 10:19 AM
Subject: RE: [SOC] IQ vs politics

Bill,

I would tend to agree with you with regards to the mismanagement.  The
D's couldn't keep the R's from:
1 - Rioting at the Dade County Election Board (the "rioters" were GOP
staffers sent from other states to stage the riot.)
2 - Purging thousands of legitimate voters from the roles in violation
of state election law.
3 - Having Katherine Harris, the FL Secretary of State (and W's FL
campaign manager), usurp the counting process.
4 - Getting the US Supreme Court from exercising extra-jurisdictional
control, in violation of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution.
5 - Having control of the great majority of the media, i.e. Fox News,
CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, not to mention all the right-wing hysterics on
radio, like Limbaugh, Michael Reagan, etc.

Not to mention Gore letting W have even the appearance of possessing a
brain cell during the debates.

73 de N8AU, Jim in Raymore, MO

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Bill Cunningham
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 4:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [SOC] IQ vs politics

Gee, nobody challenged the IQ data, Floriduh in particular.   Hanging
chads
aside, the only real source of that kind of data would come from
whatever
records the school systems (a) report and (b) retain for standardized
tests.
You can bet that isn't uniform across the country.  So does one go back
in
archives and estimate a state score from those now of voting age?
Meanwhile, back to Floriduh that has a huge population of those moving
in
after school age.  So which state gets smarter and dumber as populations
shift?  Now ask the same question by county.

By all means, decide on your answer before you frame question or select
data.

I think I side with the Libertarians here, at least with respect to the
muddle class being screwed by both major parties.  Now if the roos offer
a
candidate, they have my vote.

For what it's worth, a Poli Sci prof friend, a staunch Democrat, firmly
believes the Democrats lost because they mismanaged the election (his
term),
not because the Republicans stole it.  O dear.

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