Sociological Nerd Alert
Today we have a special, topical edition of Nerd Alert to go with the more general one presented earlier.
This Sociological Nerd Alert owes its inspiration to Jeremy, who has been presenting opinions about his own rural roots.
Well, The Center for Rural Strategies tells us that rural Americans will determine the upcoming election. Of course, that's a bit overstated--urban and suburban voters are just as important, and there isn't one national election--there are 51 elections for Electoral College electors, and these undifferentiated, unidentified (by state) "rural voters" are thus a fairly meaningless construct--rural voters in, say Wisconsin will play a role in which way the state leans; however, rural voters in Utah could all stay home, and that state would still be solidly for Bush.
You'd think that we'd all be aware of the strange regionality of our national election by now.
Anyway, topline and crosstab data are also available.
There's lots of nerdy goodness here today!
Today we have a special, topical edition of Nerd Alert to go with the more general one presented earlier.
This Sociological Nerd Alert owes its inspiration to Jeremy, who has been presenting opinions about his own rural roots.
Well, The Center for Rural Strategies tells us that rural Americans will determine the upcoming election. Of course, that's a bit overstated--urban and suburban voters are just as important, and there isn't one national election--there are 51 elections for Electoral College electors, and these undifferentiated, unidentified (by state) "rural voters" are thus a fairly meaningless construct--rural voters in, say Wisconsin will play a role in which way the state leans; however, rural voters in Utah could all stay home, and that state would still be solidly for Bush.
You'd think that we'd all be aware of the strange regionality of our national election by now.
Anyway, topline and crosstab data are also available.
There's lots of nerdy goodness here today!
posted by Jude at 1:08 PM
