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You can look up political campaign donations (many different ways), but type in some zipcodes near you. On the right it should give you a total amount dontated to each political party for that particular zipcode.
Next, compare nice neighborhoods to rougher ones... upper class ones to lower class ones. Make a note of which party receives more political donations, republican vs democrat.
From trying this out myself, I've noticed that the nicer the neighborhood, the higher the donations to republican candidates. The worse the neighborhood, the higher the donations to democratic candidates.
You've analysed data, and assuming your analysis to be correct, what is your conclusion? You said you came to a conclusion. Would you share that with us?
You've analysed data, and assuming your analysis to be correct, what is your conclusion? You said you came to a conclusion. Would you share that with us?
I made a note of my findings in the OP.
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I've noticed that the nicer the neighborhood, the higher the donations to republican candidates. The worse the neighborhood, the higher the donations to democratic candidates.
What did you find? No cherry picking neighborhoods now.
What did you find? No cherry picking neighborhoods now.
That's not a conclusion. That's an analysis of data.
The data shows "x," therefore, "conclusion." You've given us the x, but not the conclusion.
Take smoking, for example. The data shows that those who smoke have a greater occurrance of lung disease, therefore, quitting smoking can extend your lifespan.
You can look up political campaign donations (many different ways), but type in some zipcodes near you. On the right it should give you a total amount dontated to each political party for that particular zipcode.
Next, compare nice neighborhoods to rougher ones... upper class ones to lower class ones. Make a note of which party receives more political donations, republican vs democrat.
From trying this out myself, I've noticed that the nicer the neighborhood, the higher the donations to republican candidates. The worse the neighborhood, the higher the donations to democratic candidates.
If you just type in the zip code and nothing else you only get the general election campaign contributions, not the primary ones to other candidates. If you contributed and type in your full name, you see your primary contributions. McCain didn't take contributions, if I remember correctly but I don't know at what point, he didn't.
From trying this out myself, I've noticed that the nicer the neighborhood, the higher the donations to republican candidates. The worse the neighborhood, the higher the donations to democratic candidates.
Here's something to ponder, if you want to live in and be able to afford a nicer neighborhood do you take the advice of someone that has already made it there or from someone that is dirt poor?
Last edited by thecoalman; 04-17-2010 at 10:48 AM..
And if we followed your logic, what have you just said about the entire state of Ohio???
After being forced to live in Ohio for 5 years, the less said about it the better.
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