You know I love math. I think people need to embrace it more and the world would be a saner place. With that in mind, let's take a closer look at the Iowa straw pole.
Iowa has a population of 3,046,355 of which 23.7% are too young to vote. Of the remain 2,214,700 eligible voters in the state 4,823 said that they believe that Michelle Bachman is the best choice for president of our nation. So all the world is to come to the same conclusion by virtue of the opinion of 0.00218% of the people of Iowa? That's 2 one thousandths of a percent of Iowans.
It's an absurd proposition. Extrapolate that out to the population of the United States as a whole, and who would take seriously in a democracy the choice of 0.0000206% of the population imposed upon the other 233,715,549 Americans of voting age?
So 2 one hundred thousandths percent of the American people want Michelle Bachmann to be leader of the most powerful nation in the world. Hmmm...
Getting back to Iowa, the National Institute of Mental Health states that 4.5 % of Americans, age 18 and older, suffer from some form of a serious mental illness. By comparison that would suggest that Iowa is home to about 99,661 adults struggling with their sanity. They remain for the most part productive and yet anonymous members of Iowan society. However, on this past Saturday evening, we can be fairly certain what 4,823 of them were up to. Just sayin'.
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