> > The 50% are happy either way.  Saying they did/didn't vote Bush (or 
> > Kerry) is irrelevant.  You can say the 50% are pro/anti 
> Bush, it doesn't matter.
> > They are 'meh, whatever dude' Bush.
> 
> indifferent != happy.
> 
> Nate


True, doesn't mean they're unhappy either (what would Heisenberg say).  Next
you'll tell me ignorance isn't bliss after all.

That 50% doesn't seem unhappy enough to storm the White House and install
the libertarian utopia that apparently we all want.  I guess this is where I
insert the Heinlein (RAH RAH RAH!) quote.

Good lord, they might all vote PETA!

Maybe the 50% are all NRA supporters; wouldn't that be interesting.  (I've
always loved how the NRA promotes gun safety courses (fair enough) but it
always seems to be young white folk (ie farmers).  How come the brothers
down in the hood don't get no learning?  They be the ones having all the
accidents, right?)

Anyway, I doubt the end result would change even if the US had 100% voter
turnout.  Australia has 100% participation (we at least show up), and the
trends are similar to those in the US.  Two parties, labelled liberal or
conservative, with the vote more-or-less evenly split between them.  The
minor parties (hippies, pinkos, druggies, gun nuts, fundies, greenies etc)
don't matter much.  I'd assume places like the UK, Canada & NZ would be
similar.

Well, that's probably enough to upset the "Gah! This is important!!!" folk.
Now to go back to figuring out why ADOX doesn't like setting permissions on
Access forms.  Gah & meh indeed.

Tony

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