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- From: mike@gordian.com (Michael A. Thomas)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Size of LGB Vote
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.173734.7846@gordian.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:37:34 GMT
- References: <1992Nov5.205635.11633@PacBell.COM> <1dc7p1INN5pp@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> <17701@bcars664.bnr.ca>
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- In article <17701@bcars664.bnr.ca>, hwt@bcarh11a.BNR.CA (Henry Troup) writes:
- > In article <1dc7p1INN5pp@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>,
- > his@the-temple.East.Sun.COM (Howard Solomon - SunExpress Support
- > Engineer) writes:
- > |>population, but about 5% of the vote because JEWS VOTE. I wonder whether
- > |>gays tend to vote or tend not too.
- >
- > Someone during (US) election coverage claimed that 96% of gays vote.
- > Seemed high, 96% of any group is incredible. (Except that 100% of voters
- > vote, eh?)
-
- This seems like yet another specious statistic. For starters, nobody
- knows how many gay people there are -- not even the not in the closet
- gay identified variety. How then does one estimate their voting patterns
- or income or toilet paper preferences?
- If had to guess, I would think that gay people are only a little
- bit less apathetic than your average joe -- but I could easily be
- wrong toward the apathectic side.
- --
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- Michael Thomas (mike@gordian.com)
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