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Bush Cousins Launch Pro-Kerry Website
WerewolfOfVulcan writes "CNN is carrying a story about bushrelativesforkerry.com, a site launched by relatives of the President."
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These are the grandchildren of his great-aunt (George Bush Senior's Father's Sister).
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They're cousins. They went to the same school and belonged to the same Fraternity.
Oh, and Kerry is worth more...
The opposite of progress is congress
A better site for polling breakdowns is this one.
It averages out all the polls to get a global view of what is going on. It also has and electoral map and electoral count breakdown, as well as polls for each state.
They actually show you the data that they are basing their numbers on.
So he has relatives who don't agree with him. So what? Don't we all? The problem with these types of stories is that they make an issue out of a non-issue. Imagine if a story was run that stated that EVERY relative backed Bush: there would then be whining of collusion and conspiracy.
Nothing to see here. Move along...
My mom always said, "Jim, you're 1 in a million." Given the current population, there are 7000 of me. God help us all!
A significant number of commentators are pretty immature, in that they assume bright people must be anti-Bush.
But the grandparent poster didn't say that. What he said (emphasis mine) was:
[T]he crowd that runs this site, as well as the majority of readers, are a pretty bright bunch that generally takes time to think, and it's hardly surprising that the tendency is anti-Bush.
Tendency != necessity. Are there bright Bush supporters? Sure; I even know a few. But the observation that more intelligent people tend to be anti-Bush is not invalidated by these exceptions.
Not all ideas are created equal. Some ideas are better, and appeal more to intelligent people, than others. The reflexive hip cynicism we're taught to apply to political arguments -- all politicians lie, they're no differ from each other, all we get to do is vote for the lesser of two evils, blah blah blah -- tends to obscure the fact that certain policies, and those certain politicians who espouse these policies, are better than others. Intelligent people recognize this, on the whole if not in every individual case.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
Sorry, this has been debunked. According to contemporary reports the explosives were still there when we arrived, no matter what Drudge would like to have you think during the next few days.