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Trace Levels of Lead Shown to Lower IQs
constantnormal writes "This government study explains a lot of things, from the American public's propensity to elect the worst candidates, to the decreasing fraction of students who bother to study the "hard" sciences, to the overwhelming power advertising holds over their apparently simple minds. I think it was all the leaded gasoline burned in this country prior to the 1970s.
Homer Simpson IS the archetypal American -- Thinking and Reasoning is just too doggoned difficult."
Homer Simpson IS the archetypal American -- Thinking and Reasoning is just too doggoned difficult."
There's no such thing as a popular vote for President.
There are popular votes in fifty states.
Journalists running around gathering up vote counts from fifty states, all collected by various means, and summing it up and calling it a 'popular vote' is irrelevant.
It's definite established fact that Algore lost the popular vote in his home state of Tennessee, though, which is quite unusual. And it's definite established fact that the Tennessee electoral vote would have elected him.
What is it about the guy that he can't even win the 'favorite son' vote from the people who know him best?
This is severely off-topic of course. Lead poisoning didn't contribute at all to the droning stupidity of Algore's campaign rants.