Unbelievable stat of the day/week/month/year

From the always excellent Crossing Wall Street,

Total Democratic Presidential Votes Since 1932: 745,407,082

Total Republican Presidential Votes Since 1932: 745,297,123

Total Third-Party Presidential Votes Since 1932: 66,061,486

How’s that for parity? That’s a difference of 109,959 votes out of over 1.5 billion cast.

2 Responses to “Unbelievable stat of the day/week/month/year”

1. A Second Hand Conjecture » Deep Political Time says:

   December 9, 2008 at 2:54 pm

   [...] It happens that democracies can produce a political equivalent of this sort of experience of scale, due to their tendency to compile and preserve vast quantities of generational voting data over time, like strata for a human historical edifice. Thus consider the awful and incredible parity of nineteen presidential elections, producing one and one half billion votes, with a mere one hundred thousand to separate the two parties: Total Democratic Presidential Votes Since 1932: 745,407,082 Total Republican Presidential Votes Since 1932: 745,297,123 (Crossing Wall Street via Pundit Review) [...]
2. GM stat of the day | Pundit Review says:

   December 11, 2008 at 9:32 am

   [...] Another mind blowing stat of the day from the outstanding blog Crossing Wall Street, In 2007, Toyota sold 9.37 million vehicles. [...]