data mining
This is fascinating:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/instapund…
In the race for the most popular votes in the Democratic Party’s presidential primary contests, Sen. Barack Obama’s lead over Sen. Hillary Clinton is about 711,000 votes … with 429,000 of that lead coming from his home base of Cook County. That margin in Cook County represents almost 60% of Obama’s total lead nationwide.
March 25th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Sen. Clinton has roots here in Cook County as well; it’s a diverse county with almost as many voters in the inner suburbs (including her Park Ridge and my own village of Skokie) as in the city of Chicago itself. It would be interesting to know how much of that 429,000 comes from Cubs precincts, and how much from White Sox.
March 25th, 2008 at 10:50 am
[quote comment="133690"] It would be interesting to know how much of that 429,000 comes from Cubs precincts, and how much from White Sox.[/quote]
What does hockey have to do with this?
March 25th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
What does hockey have to do with this?
Not much, for you doctrinaire statists. The rest of us are more impressed by uncoerced community affiliations, as revealed by leisure-time clothing and spending habits, than by arbitrary lines drawn on a map by functionaries.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Forget about which sports team they root for.
I’m more interested in how many of them still have a pulse. This is, afterall, Chicago politics.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Travis is at least an ambivalent defender of civil rights for the metabolically challenged.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Joshua, I’m thinking that maybe you missed Travis’ joke?
March 25th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Joshua, I’m thinking that maybe you missed Travis’ joke?
I believe you. Thanks for sharing!