I personally don't look at percentages when seeing if someone (or a group) did "something" more than in the past. Looking at concrete numbers, such as the ACTUAL number of votes cast by young voters this election versus the actual number case by young voters last election, seems to me to be a much more realistic gauge as to determining if there's been an increase in something.

But maybe that's just my analytical mind ticking away....;) :p

I wish Moore would stop calling Michigan "his" state... he and Dr. Kervorkian are two infamous Michiganders that we would rather do without!

IMO, Kevorkian is a shining example of mercy and dignity.

I agree with his beliefs, but the way that he went about it left no dignity for his "patients". We were constantly hearing news reports in Michigan of bodies being dumped at ER along with video tapes of their deaths. Sometimes they were just left in a car near the ER entrance. I completely agree that someone with a terminal illness should be able to move on to their next chapter of life without the law interfering, but his methods of bringing attention to his cause were extreme and only hurt him in the long run.

Dee

I hate these types of statistics. Really I hate statistics all together. Most people take them on their face and have no idea how they were obtained or calculated and therefore what they actually reflect. One of my statistics textbook was titled "how to lie with statistics" and that is what I see played out over and over when the media uses these numbers as catchy sound bites. Nisrepresentations backed up wiht questionable statistics.

Who are they polling? Where are they polling? I have voted in every election since I was 18 (nearly 15 years) and never once even seen anyone doing an exit poll where I am. Of course my most recent district is primarily African American and that might make it look like too many African Americans are actually voting o why poll there. :rolleyes: How can you gauge the number of young people voting without looking at their use of absentee ballots? Many of these first time voters were college students who had to vote absentee. How can you say they did not vote based on exit polls?