An example a friend pointed out:

Anyways, the election party moved to a Theater in the U-District for some Improv focusing solely on the election. Unfortunately, by the time we made it out the theater, Obama already had about 200 electoral votes, and with the west coast remaining, it was pretty obviously Obama was going to win. Luckily the show was still pretty humorous and they went just about all night. We were able to follow the Senate and House elections as well as the major propositions of the evening, and were able to catch both speeches.

side note: By the way, incredibly jealous of anyone who was able to make it out to Grant Park. Not fair, not fair at all.

Results from the election:

1. Obama won.
2. I’m immensely happy its over. I was growing tired of it about a month and a half ago.
3. After spending time on the west coast, its pretty obvious that the electoral system is no longer applicable. Your vote doesn’t count. You can try to say this is an un-American view point and a bad excuse for not voting, except that it’s true. By 6pm PST, it was obvious that Obama was going to win. The networks just needed the 8pm PST closing time of west coast state polls to call it. Hilariously, no votes needed to be counted, even though these states had just finished voting. McCain promptly gave his concession speech. If you already know the outcome of the election before you have a chance to vote, what’s the point? Do you really feel any better for not contributing? With a popular vote, one person might not directly make a difference (due to issues with vote counting), but 100 would. What’s more, seeing how the election is doing as the polls come in across the country might actually might bring more people out to vote, as they could have a real impact. One state might have more votes counted in this situation, but hey, their residents made the effort.

Soonish, I’ll discuss the day after, and today (John Hodgman).

Presidential election

Obama winning

CNN being dumb

Political Improv

Other election crazyiness

Jeff Bezos

Tom Cruise

Valkyrie

Double header

Bolt

Madagascar 2

Minneapolis???

1. The belief that certain persons or members of certain classes or groups deserve favored treatment by virtue of their perceived superiority, as in intellect, social status, or financial resources.
2. 1. The sense of entitlement enjoyed by such a group or class.
   2. Control, rule, or domination by such a group or class.

So I’ve grown tired of the incessant use of the word elite in this year’s presidential campaign. I figured, in my time of annoyance, why not have some fun.

Here’s the breakdown:

Political Demographics of US (in terms of registered votes [Wikipedia]:

Income Demographics of US 2004 Presidential Election [CNN]:

please forgive my spelling…

Adjusting that for a better look:

Unfortunately, I was unable to find generic Party Identification Demographics by Income, and the fact that the Republicans won this election skews this graph a good deal. In fact, party identification by percentage of population generally always favors the Democrats, although I’m too lazy to go out and prove that.

Regardless, there’s an obvious trend here: the liberal elite, in general, apparently make a good deal less than their conservative populist counterparts. While elitism can be defined as perceived intellectual superiority or social status, I’m highly doubtful those under the poverty line would proclaim themselves as such.

Anyways, I just think words, for the most part, come predefined, so let’s just start using them that way…

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