Factoid for the day

Posted at 9:39 AM on September 28, 2007 by Mike Mulcahy (5 Comments)

From the AP:

Forty percent of Americans have never lived when there wasn't a Bush or a Clinton in the White House.

That's 116 million people for those of you keeping count.

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Comments (5)

That's impossible. That means 40% of Americans are under the age of 27.

Posted by MNDem | September 28, 2007 11:31 AM

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I think it's possible. There are a lot of Americans under age 27. There are also a lot of Americans who didn't live in the USA before 1989 (when the elder Bush took office).
I can see how the combined youth + semi-recent-immigrant percentage might add up to 40%.

Posted by Joe | September 28, 2007 1:06 PM

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"That means 40% of Americans are under the age of 27."

That's impossible. That means that 60% of Americans are over 27. Damn, we're old.

Posted by bsimon | September 28, 2007 2:24 PM

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OK, I went back to the original story. The author cites 116 million people out of 303 million who have never lived without a Bush or Clinton in the White House. That's actually 38.28 percent.

And I note this line later in the piece: "Already, for 116 million Americans, there has never been a time when there wasn't a Bush or Clinton in the White House, either as president or vice president."

So I guess the calculation has to go back to 1981.

Posted by Mike Mulcahy | September 28, 2007 2:26 PM

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And depending on what happens in November 2008, that number could go up higher. Much higher.

I like to tell my friends the joke that if Clinton wins 2008, there shoud then be proposed a constitutional amendment to prevent such"legacy" condidates.

The great thing is that between the last seven years of GWB, and anticipating four of Hil, nearly every one of them laughs heartily! JZ

Posted by JohnnyZoom | September 29, 2007 8:33 PM

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