Bush voters fatter than Gore voters - fun factoid!

[Sliverofhope]

BUSH v. GORE....This is weird. Via Unfogged, here's a chart showing that the fatter you are the more likely you were to vote for Bush in 2000. What's more, aside from a set of outliers in the mountain states (which is peculiar all by itself) the correlation looks pretty good for a set of social science data.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_06/004103.php

http://www.unfogged.com/archives/week_2004_06_06.html#001949

Enjoy!

[lanparty]

1. Bush is REALLY porking up lately!!!!

Is he shooting to beat Taft's record????

[demnan]

2. Shows you that statistics don't always tell the story.

[republicansareevil]

3. I dread where I anticipate this thread will go.

A mildly interesting statistic in and of itself, but how long before the fatty-bashing begins?

[Vickers]

4. Their girth doesn't concern me...their ignorance does.

See, for lots of folks, weight can be a difficult thing to manage, while educating yourself can be as easy as reading a newspaper.

[Sliverofhope]

5. Actually, the story is

that the red states are in worse shape than the blue states, and the calculation is done on a state to state basis.