[IrishMike]

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the 2008 Presidential election:

Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29
Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: “In aggregate, the map of the territory Republicans won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare...”

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the “complacency and apathy” phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation’s population already having reached the “governmental dependency” phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote
.........The rest is history

[GreyFriar]

interesting statistics in post 13.

[CaribouCrossing]

Excellent post, IrishMike.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

The statistics in your post are bogus. This was a viral email that has been debunked by several websites, the same email circulated after the 2000 election with only the names changed to Bush and Gore. The professor that supposedly authored this information has issued a statement on his own web page that the email is fabricated.

It would be nice if this forum wasn't furthering bad information that has been floating around the internet for a decade.

[Kryptonite]

That is a bogus story about Prof. Olson, and those stats are not from 2008.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/athenian.asp