05 November, 2008

I am not moving to Germany

or Canada, at least not quite yet. The election went mostly how I wanted. It is great that so many people got out and voted, but we still have a long way to go.
Number of people eligible to vote in the US.
217.8 million

Number of people who voted yesterday.
120,115,867
55%...

In other more entertaining news. I always thought something on the ballot coming down to one vote was something for the Simpsons. But I was proven wrong yesterday. A proposal to allow liquor sales in Duluth's far east end was defeated by one single vote. Incredible!
2,827 against
2,826 for

1 comment:

Sean Noonan said...

you know merkel generally supports us FoPo right? unless it has to do with their trading interests (iran russia)

and i think turnout was ,uch higher...more like 60ish percent...your info may not be counting absentee ballots and all that goodnes....but i am not sure

sean