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- From: sjackman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Simon D. Jackman)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
- Subject: Re: Congressional Check Bouncing
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.225516.11794@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 22:55:16 GMT
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- In the briefing book CBS News was circulating prior to the election
- there was a copy of a list of congress people with check problems. The
- distribution is highly positively skewed. I think it maxed out around
- 960 checks, but a large number of people had zero or only a small number
- of bounced checks.
-
- A good proportion of people with serious check problems (say, > 100
- checks) chose not to seek re-election, or lost in the primaries.
-
- Cheers -- Simon Jackman, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton U, and Dept of
- Political Science, U.Rochester.
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