Fewer Republicans in Heaven? Some data for the religious right.

[cdp]

Mark 10:25

"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.”


2004 Vote By Income:
Under $15,000 – Bush 36% Kerry 63%
$15 - $30,000 – Bush 42% Kerry 57%
$30 - $50,000 – Bush 49% Kerry 50%
$50 - $75,000 – Bush 56% Kerry 43%
$75 -$100,000 – Bush 55% Kerry 45%
$100 -150,000 – Bush 57% Kerry 42%
$150 -200,000 – Bush 58% Kerry 42%
over $200,000 – Bush 63% Kerry 35%

2000 Vote By Income:
Under $15,000 - Bush 37% Gore 57%
$15 - $30,000 - Bush 41% Gore 54%
$30 - $50,000 - Bush 48% Gore 49%
$50 - $75,000 - Bush 51% Gore 46%
$75 -$100,000 - Bush 52% Gore 45%
Over $100,000 - Bush 54% Gore 43%

1996 Vote By Income:
Under $15,000 - Dole 28% Clinton 59%
$15 - $30,000 - Dole 36% Clinton 53%
$30 - $50,000 - Dole 40% Clinton 48%
$50 - $75,000 - Dole 45% Clinton 47%
$75 -$100,000 - Dole 48% Clinton 44%
Over $100,000 - Dole 54% Clinton 38%

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/US/P/00/epolls.0.html
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/results/index.epolls.html
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/elections/natl.exit.poll/index1.html

This information is just for your amusement. I do not claim to have any knowledge of the afterlife. Please don’t take offense.

[freeplessinseattle]

1. that is very interesting. especially that the solidly middle class

$30,000-50,000 is the group that is most evenly split (unless maybe the next one up is the solidly middle class, I don't know anymore, I'm in that range, am single and childfree though, so..)

[cdp]

2. I find in fascinating that

the more money you have, the more likely you are to vote Republican. The relationship is very, very consistent. At least in the last three elections.

[freeplessinseattle]

3. definitely, but not exactly new news, or mysterious. it is interesting

that over 200,000 is where the largest difference is, and that is the tax cut cut-off point that JK was talking about, hmmm. is that all it is about, taxes, how pathetic those repukes are.

[BrotherBuzz]

4. It will be a cold night in Hell...

A retiring physical chemistry professor was setting his last exam, for a graduate course in statistical thermodynamics. Being a bit bored with it all, and with a well kept and wry sense of humour, he set a single question on the sheet:

Is Hell endothermic or exothermic? Support you answer with a proof.

He had little idea what to expect, or how to grade the results, but decided to reward any student who was able to come up with a reasonable and consistent reply to his query. One A was awarded.

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law or some variant. The top student however wrote the following answer:

First, we postulate that if souls exist, then they must have some mass. If they do, then a mole of souls can also have a mass. So, at what rate are souls moving into hell and at what rate are souls leaving? I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for souls entering hell, lets look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all people and all souls go to hell.

With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in hell to increase exponentially.

Now, we look at the rate of change in volume in hell. Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in hell to stay the same, the ratio of the mass of souls and volume needs to stay constant. There are two possible conditions. One, if hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter hell, then the temperature and pressure in hell will increase exponentially until all hell breaks loose. Conversely, if hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in hell, than the temperature and pressure will drop until hell freezes over, condition two.

We can solve this with the 1990 postulation of Theresa LeClair, the girl who lived across the hall from me in first year residence that told me "It will be a cold night in Hell before I sleep with you". Since I have still not been successful in obtaining sexual relations with her, condition two above has not been met, and thus it can be concluded that condition one is true, and hell is exothermic.

[whosinpower]

5. Hmmmmm - Bush leads by 3.5 MILLION votes.....

Would that equate that there are 3.5 million voters who earn more than $200 000 each year????????