Name:   water_watcher - Subject:   The 2008 Election Results - Facts - Interesting ! Date:   12/29/2010 3:55:41 PM

Election Results:

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning last November 2008 Presidential election:  

• Candidate:   Obama McCain

• Number of States won by:   19   29

• Square miles of land won by:         580,000    2,427,000

• Population of counties won by:    127 million   143 million

• Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:  13.2     2.1  

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.