ticket stuff than vote down the bottom. people run out of steam and stop filling out the bubbles as they go down their ballot. that s almost always how it goes. that s not what happened in georgia last year. of all the races on the ticket, fewer people voted for lieutenant governor, secretary race on the ballot than any other race. by a lot. what was going on? around 80,000 fewer people voted in the lieutenant governor race than in other races even further down the ballot like votes for labor commissioner. more people voted for labor commissioner than lieutenant governor, the number two elected official? that s weird. that drop-off in the lieutenant governor race vote has been a mystery since november 2018. it led reporters to try to figure out why and how that happened in georgia. today we got this from the atlanta constitution. they looked at one precinct that had seven voting machines.
odd picture. this is a sample ballot. typically, there s a dropoff in the number of votes cast as people make their way down the ticket. if you use this as a guide, in state wide races, what i mean is the most people tend to vote in the governor race. more people vote in the governor than lieutenant governor. more people vote for lieutenant governor than the secretary of state race. more people vote for the secretary of state than the state attorney general. this trend usually happens all the way down the ballot in state wide elections. it s the opposite of a trickle down affect. kind of decay in turnout as you make your way down the ticket. more people vote for top of the ticket stuff than vote down the bottom. people run out of steam and stop filling out the bubbles as they go down their ballot. that s almost always how it goes. that s not what happened in georgia last year. of all the races on the ticket, fewer people voted for lieutenant governor, secretary
president obama on my side if i m a democrat and mitt romney on my side if i m a republican, but to your point if i m in california or massachusetts, i m on my own. or virginia, florida, and you have lots of company. and sometimes you want it and sometimes you don t and it depends upon what kind ofรง district you are running in. members of congress are all about running for the re-election, because politics is local, but we know that the national polls show that the congressional approval rating is 12%, but when you ask that person about the local member of congress, that number is higher. not everybody hates their member of congress, but they hate congress. i want to give you the last word. well, the decline of mod ratss, because some of the folks are retiring because they don t have is the stomach for the fisticuffs which is now legislating on capitol hill and it is shocking to me that we have the defense triggers going into place, and the bush tax cuts that need to be exten
what kind of stuff? rf refrigerators, stove, big ticket stuff. holidays, you see it. a lot of times we don t pay attention to it. when they break down we get them to get them because we need them. but if you wait until holidays, that s when your biggest sales are going to be on appliances. around the holidays, just that time to get rid of stuff? trying to get rid of it? any holiday, or christmastime and thanksgiving time? even some of the smaller holidays like columbus day and labor day. columbus day? yes. especially right now, too, in this economy. everybody is not buying. here s a big one for a lot of folks. computers, everybody is in the market for a computer and other electronic. when? this is interesting. think about how fast technology is changing. this is almost daily now. the key is looking for new technology comes out. if you look at intel, come out with a new chip that new chip is going to come in and move out the old ones. they may only be six months,
the big ticket stuff that would have stopped it the last time around, too big to fail, derivatives, almost all of those measures were rejected outright tore watered down to near meaninglessness. i think wall street feels they dodged a bullet with the bill. they re going to complain and say it s an onerous bill. gillian, if you go back to 2007, 2008, are there provisions at the moment in this bill that would prevent the financial crisis that we went through from happening again? well, we still have to see where financial reform is going to end up and that s quite an important thing to realize because until we see how the rules are written remember it s a 2 rk, 300 page bill. unfortunately many of the products that were at the center of the financial crisis or these