Monday, October 01, 2007
IDLE AUSTRALIAN
Phillip Adams continues losing it:
In the US, fewer and fewer people vote at all.
Wrong. According to an MIT study, “17 million more people voted in 2004 than in 2000, a 14 percent increase.”
Hence the unpalatable fact that more Americans voted in TV’s American Idol than in the presidential elections.
Wrong again - massively so. The US census reports that some 126 million Americans voted in the 2004 Presidential election. Only half that number of votes were cast during American Idol in 2006:
The host, Ryan Seacrest, said 63.4 million votes were cast this season ...
That includes, obviously, multiple votes sent by individual viewers. Phil’s error is widely shared.
(By Alan R.M. Jones)
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