Message from Chuck...

[Hangtime]

 Me first.

Don't you mean city, since Alaska only has 683,000 people.

What.. you expect the percentage to change because there's more people in most states?

...or do you expect the percentage to change in a state where there's more people in more ghettos?

[Torque]

crack me up...sure take back the government... but just not my part.

Slightly over half of all Americans – 52.6 percent – now receive significant income from government programs, according to an analysis by Gary Shilling, an economist in Springfield, N.J. That's up from 49.4 percent in 2000 and far above the 28.3 percent of Americans in 1950. If the trend continues, the percentage could rise within ten years to pass 55 percent, where it stood in 1980 on the eve of President's Reagan's move to scale back the size of government.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0416/p01s04-usec.html?page=1

i guess that's another hidden reason why ron paul never had a chance... when he should by all accounts be ahead by a landslide...

[MORAY37]

Yeeeaaaa 05 is sooo relevant now.

I suppose there's been some major evolution of the species since '05?  People are people, and trends such as that don't change.  All of the smallest states had the highest governor's ratings.  Is there any better representation of herd mentality?

[bsdaddict]

I suppose there's been some major evolution of the species since '05?  People are people, and trends such as that don't change.  All of the smallest states had the highest governor's ratings.  Is there any better representation of herd mentality?

To me it represents the fact that small state governments have small state budgets, and since gov't in general causes more problems than it solves the more efficient a governmental body is forced to be, the happier the citizens will be with said body.

[Elfie]

Don't you mean city, since Alaska only has 683,000 people.

No, I meant State.

[Bronk]

I suppose there's been some major evolution of the species since '05?  People are people, and trends such as that don't change.  All of the smallest states had the highest governor's ratings.  Is there any better representation of herd mentality?

Considering the fact that.. ohh say Mitt Romney has been replaced by a leftist weenie since then... Yup.

[Elfie]

Interestingly enough, when looked at, all the governors of the smallest states had mostly high approval ratings (>60%)
(circa 2005)


http://www.surveyusa.com/50State2005/50StateGovernorApproval0905SortedbyApproval.htm

Interesting.....

[Hangtime]

lowest per capita ghetto dwellers.

[Yeager]

According to windbag Jack Cafferty, Alaska is populated by 13 people and some Carbou.  There's your liberal regard for Alaska 

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2008/08/30/cafferty-insults-alaska-state-has-13-people-some-caribou

[Mustaine]

Show me a liberal that has an 80% approval rating in any state.

What was kennedy's approval rating last year (before the dreaded brain cancer finally discovered)?

more importantly, what was his victory margin last election?



 

[Elfie]

What was kennedy's approval rating last year (before the dreaded brain cancer finally discovered)?

more importantly, what was his victory margin last election?



 

No idea on either, that's why I asked what I did.

[1pLUs44]

It makes me chuckle every time I see Palin's 80% favorable rating in her home state.  Alaska is the single most republican (and possibly conservative) dominated state in the union.  Use it for what you will, but the statistics are severely misleading.

Because what the liberals do in Congress affect them the most.

[lazs2]

hang.. forget it..  moray does not get it.   He thinks that only socialism and big government and us all living in big craphole cities will work.

People in the rural areas feel more in control of their lives and resent government less.. that is all there is to it.

lazs

[Jackal1]

Belittling the small population of one of the top 5 states with regards to economic impact on this nation does not change the fact that it is an economic powerhouse.  One that is being governed very efficiently by the current Governor.

Not to mention the fact that Alaskan government has to deal, on a regular basis, with some of the heaviest hitters, not only in U.S. government and lobbyist, but those worldwide.

[B3YT]

just a note that the smaller the population the more effect a singular vote will have on an opinion poll. Also the more insular the opinions will be.  in small populations an individual will have more sway on effecting a persons  attitude to an issue. It's easier to get 20 people to think nice things of you than to get 4000 people to think well of you. ergo opinion polls of places such as Alaska should  be viewed with much caution .