Checking for Loose Chads
Lately it has been a wild ride over at Felipe Zapata’s (a pen name of course) Blog, The Unseen Moon. Ol’ Felipe casts fate and all semblance of proper social behavior down the rabbit hole with his political and social rants.
I write “proper social behavior” tongue in cheek by the way. Our Blogs are editorial in nature – so opinions abound.
Felipe is a fine writer who I know annoys many of his ardent followers that read for his grace, finesse and clever yarns rather than his political and social views.
Like Felipe we are not afraid to speak our mind – political or otherwise – here. If you have visited more than a few times you know I am a tree hugging, libertarian (note the small “L”), humanitarian, and vegetarian with a lot to say on those subjects and living life large in Mexico.
Fortunately Felipe and I share close quarters in our political thinking – although he is slightly more conservative and less idealistic and optimistic. In fairness he is more of a realist than me.
I write fortunately because he a tough and erudite debater brimming with logic (most of the time); he chews and spits out many a commenter; and he bans those that grate on him with impunity, which does not happen here.
In yesterday’s Xalapa, Veracruz newspaper, The Diario Xalapa, there was a poll taken throughout the day. We screen captured it early on and then checked again this morning to compare how it changed as the number of votes grew.
Translation: Do you think that America faces one of the most important elections in its history?
Some interesting things to note: Little change as the vote count grew supporting the fact that many of these polls taken are but a few folk’s votes – like – “we took a poll of 1600 people and Mitt Romney blah blah….” Apparently they are pretty sure some small number just over a thousand or two thousand or so people will well represent the opinions of all (plus or minus 3%). Here we see that this theory seems to be supported.
Then there is the fact that the major percentages of voters were pretty much split down the middle. Also not surprising these days, where most elections are usually decided by just a few percentage points – a sign of the times we think.
Last point of interest is the fact that one out of five Mexican nationals could care less about the U.S. presidential race. We suspect that percentage would be higher if U.S. folks were polled on their interest in the Mexican race for president.
Coming soon to a television near you three debates between Mitt and Barack; and throw in an October contest between Paul and Joe. Should be fun over at Felipe’s Blog and around here too. Stay Tuned!
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