I’m Running Anyway

A recent Gallup poll, via Daily Kos:

If your party nominated a well-qualified Candidate For WH ’08 who was _, would you vote for that person?

                         Yes   No                  

Catholic                  95%  4%                          

Black                     94   5  

Jewish                    92   7    

A woman                   88  11        

Hispanic                  87  12    

Mormon                    72  24  

Married for third time    67  30  

72 years old              57  42

A homosexual              55  43    

An atheist                45  53

Nothing new, of course.

But what if the race were between an atheist and a black Mormon lesbian, huh? What then?

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51 thoughts on “I’m Running Anyway”

  1. There’s at least as good a chance of a black Mormon lesbian becoming president of the United States as there is of a black Mormon lesbian existing.

    Though surely, if we’re going to calculate the prevalence over the age of the universe of Boltzmann brains, why have we not also determined the effect on the fate of the universe of quantum fluctuations giving rise to Boltzmann black Mormon lesbians? and defeating Boltzmann atheists at the Boltzmann polls?

    Then again Boltzmann brains are probably biased against atheism – after all, they did just pop into existence with no evidence for development by evolutionary processes, since none in fact took place. Any Boltzmann brain with half a brain is going to reflect that simply having popped into existence out of a quantum fluctuation is an unsatisfactory and highly unlikely model.

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