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Bush Opens DoubleDigit Lead (pg. 2)
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| speedracer_mec |
I think you should start studying Polling and how its done/how accurate it can be.
America's most trusted poll: the Gallup Poll does about 1000 people as a sample size. So do a little research before you start barking in this forum and labeling polls as a piece of trash.
Time Poll is not your anyday aol msger poll
http://www.gallup.com/help/FAQs/poll1.asp:rolleyes:
However, IMO,
Most polls once said and done will have the race...with Bush ahead by 5-9 points... |
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| LiquidX |
| quote: | Originally posted by speedracer_mec
I think you should start studying Polling and how its done/how accurate it can be.
America's most trusted poll: the Gallup Poll does about 1000 people as a sample size. So do a little research before you start barking in this forum and labeling polls as a piece of trash.
Time Poll is not your anyday aol msger poll
http://www.gallup.com/help/FAQs/poll1.asp:rolleyes:
However, IMO,
Most polls once said and done will have the race...with Bush ahead by 5-9 points... |
So much talking.. same crap happened last year, and guess who would have won in Florida if there would have been a RE-COUNT.. heh.. funny eh? |
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| Trancer-X |
| quote: | Originally posted by Q5echo
bring on the debates.
so Bush can put the last nail in the coffin. |
a good analogy considering how many people he had put to death as Governer of TX
http://www.quixote.org/ej/archives/..._Fall.html#bush
Yeah, compassionate... my ass. |
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| Q5echo |
you speak as if he was the only governor that ever utilized capital punishment.
do you realize that texas happens to be the 2nd most populace state in the union?
do you realize that when Bush was gov. Texas was a close third to New York, and far behind California. guess what. those states don't have the death penalty.
not only that Bush hasn't been the gov. for four years and Texas still leads the states in capital punishment, by a long shot.
its cool if your anti-CP but numbers don't lie, your ideology might. |
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| Trancer-X |
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Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976 Texas has executed 180 people, 100 of them occurred during the Bush administration. |
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| Trancer-X |
| quote: | Originally posted by Q5echo
do you realize that texas happens to be the 2nd most populace state in the union?
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Also the most populace prison system
http://www.cjcj.org/pubs/texas/texas.html ;)
| quote: | As of year end 1999, there were 706,60013 Texans in prison, jail, parole or probation on any given day. In a state with 14 million adults, this meant that 5% of adult Texans, or 1 out of every 20, are under some form of criminal justice supervision. The scale of what is happening in Texas is so huge, it is difficult to contrast the size of its criminal justice systems to the other states' systems it dwarfs:
There are more Texans under criminal justice control than the entire populations of some states, including Vermont, Wyoming and Alaska.
According to Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates, one quarter of the nation's parole and probationers are in Texas. California and Texas, together, comprise half the nation's parolees and probationers. |
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| Q5echo |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trancer-X
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another one of those misleading stats that make a person look like a monster when in reality it's the system thats the monster.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/dr.htm |
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| Trancer-X |
Stats aren't needed to prove or disprove anything when 5% of the population of TX is in the criminal justice system.
If the system is/was so bad then why didn't Bush try to fix it instead of just gloating over the executions? |
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| Q5echo |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trancer-X
Stats aren't needed to prove or disprove anything when 5% of the population of TX is in the criminal justice system. |
the stats bring in a larger perspective of CP in this country over a period time. they speak for themselves and open to interpretation on how you present them. your way of presenting them is misleading IMO.
5% stat is total in the criminal justice system is irrelavent
| quote: | | If the system is/was so bad then why didn't Bush try to fix it instead of just gloating over the executions? |
good or bad? you (not specifically) are either for CP or your against it. Bush is obviously for it. and certainly does not stand in the way of the system. is that a character flaw? to me and many other Texans, it's not. |
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| Q5echo |
when i hit submit i double post half the friggen time?
i single click i swear. |
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| Trancer-X |
| quote: | Originally posted by Q5echo
the stats bring in a larger perspective of CP in this country over a period time. they speak for themselves and open to interpretation on how you present them. your way of presenting them is misleading IMO.
5% stat is total in the criminal justice system is irrelavent
good or bad? you (not specifically) are either for CP or your against it. Bush is obviously for it. and certainly does not stand in the way of the system. is that a character flaw? to me and many other Texans, it's not. |
How is any of it irrelevant?
| quote: | | During the 1990s, Texas added more prisoners to its prison system (+98,081) than New York's entire prison population (73,233) by some 24,848 prisoners. This means that the number of prisoners that Texas added during the 1990s was 34% higher than New York's entire prison population. Throughout the 1990s, Texas added five times as many prisoners as New York did (18,001). Nevertheless, the Lone Star State's crime drops were much less impressive than what occurred in the Empire State. Since 1995, the percentage decline in overall crime in New York was four times greater than the drop experienced in Texas, and New York's crime rate dropped twice as much as Texas. Even if you go back further, from 1990 to 1998--the decline in the crime rate in New York was 26% greater than the drop in crime in Texas. |
It's obviously a poorly operating system that one could have at least tried to find some solutions to (instead of just answering his cronies' calls to privatize - see Wackenhut Corrections Corporation)
You don't find it a bit hypocritical that someone so devoutly Christain made it such a habit of violating the Ten Commandments?
"Thou shall not murder" |
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| policerobots |
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