Questions that need Asked 2-15-07

What happens to a team when they run back the opening kickoff in a championship game?  Or didn’t anyone notice that was pretty much the end of  both Ohio State and the Chicago Bears? 

Why didn’t they just unlock the other door at the American Idol Auditions?

 

One of the local radio stations refuses to pay the Dixie Chicks because they "started making political statements."  When did that become a criteria and aren't you making one yourself if you refuse to play someone's music?

 

Does everyone realize how interesting the 2008 election could be?

Here's why:  Senators can't win the Presidency.  Best I can tell we've only elected one Senator (Kennedy) to the Presidency in over 100 years.

 

If  the 2008 Presidential election turns out to be McCain vs.Obama or Clinton it will be 2 sitting senators opposing each other. A Senator’s votes are on record, making them an easy target.  Ask John Kerry, Al Gore, Bob Dole, Walter Mondale, George McGovern, Hubert Humphrey, Barry Goldwater.  The list is long of losing former senators.  A governor or mayor must be much harder to assail.  Bodes well for Gulianni.   

 

Fantastic web site for this is www.uselectionsatlas.org.  Here’s something truly amazing:

 

In 1904 7.6 Million people voted for the winner Theodore Roosevelt.  In 2004 62 million voted for George Bush.  Which leads me to my next question.

 

Where are we going to put everybody?

Total votes: 122,293,548 were cast in 2004.  In 1904 the total was 13,525,095.  Of course women couldn’t vote then and we had fewer states, but it lead me to do a little population research.  The 1900 census had the U.S. at  76 million.  The 2000 census had us at  273 million.

I’m not that good at math, but I figure at that rate the 2100 U.S. population will be over 1 billion people.  The current estimate is that births plus immigrants less deaths equals a net gain of 1 person every 12 seconds in the US.  Current population is 301 million. If the population quadruples in the next 100 years as it did in the last 100, where are we going to put everybody?  Those high rise condos may stretch from the coast to Memphis in 100 years.