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Currently at Toronto Pearson: 13. High today: 19. UW contest ended at 3:30 this afternoon. The Weather Network now has temperatures into the twenties from Monday to Friday. Lots of thunderstorms around last night, flashing in the distance for hours, like the middle of summer. I'm pretty sure there were mosquitoes out this evening. The earliest I've ever seen a mosquito before is probably the end of May.
Oh well, might as well enjoy this disturbing new life in the semi-tropics. Here's the ( second, third, and fourth ) flowers of the spring!
Some people expect Rick Santorum to be less popular among women than among men, because he opposes abortion and contraception, and they're surprised that this does not turn out to be the case: 23% each of Republican men and women recently told Gallup they support Santorum; 40% of all women told a NYT/CBS poll that they'd vote for Santorum against Obama, while 39% said they'd vote for Romney. This led me to wonder whether it's actually the case that more women than men support abortion rights. (It seems to me a reasonable hypothesis that women support abortion rights more deeply than men do--certainly it seems to be predominantly women who advocate for abortion rights. But that doesn't imply that women support abortion rights more broadly than men do. It doesn't even imply that women don't oppose abortion rights more deeply than men do. Women might simply be more polarized than men on abortion rights.) It turns out that, apparently, they more or less don't: in a 2011 Gallup poll (and you find similar results in earlier Gallup polls), 36% of men and 37% of women said that abortion should be legal in all or most circumstances; 61% of men and 60% of women said that abortion should be legal in few circumstances or none. 19% of men and 24% of women said that abortion should be illegal in all circumstances, which would probably be an excellent predictor of support for Santorum. (On the moral as opposed to legal question, 51% of men and 51% of women said that abortion is morally wrong; 40% of men and 39% of women said that abortion is morally acceptable.)
Hey, did you know that Ron Paul (or, rather, Ron Paul candidates running to be delegates) won a plurality of votes in the Virigin Islands caucus, but Paul ended up with one delegate while Romney got seven? American politics is awesome!
Also, did you know (probably you did; how did I not know this?) that Romney's full name is Willard Mitt Romney, and that he was named after his father's buddy J. Willard Marriott of Marriott hotels and also his father's cousin Milton "Mitt" Romney of the Chicago Bears? Here I'd just assumed, I guess, that "Mitt" is some kind of name American rugged individualists give their kids, like Trig. (On one hand, you just can't see a guy called Willard Romney being elected president. But on the other hand, Will Romney, now that could be a president. Come to think of it, if Mitt Romney were to be elected president, I guess he would be the first president whose name is, like, not an actual name.)
Oh well, might as well enjoy this disturbing new life in the semi-tropics. Here's the ( second, third, and fourth ) flowers of the spring!
Some people expect Rick Santorum to be less popular among women than among men, because he opposes abortion and contraception, and they're surprised that this does not turn out to be the case: 23% each of Republican men and women recently told Gallup they support Santorum; 40% of all women told a NYT/CBS poll that they'd vote for Santorum against Obama, while 39% said they'd vote for Romney. This led me to wonder whether it's actually the case that more women than men support abortion rights. (It seems to me a reasonable hypothesis that women support abortion rights more deeply than men do--certainly it seems to be predominantly women who advocate for abortion rights. But that doesn't imply that women support abortion rights more broadly than men do. It doesn't even imply that women don't oppose abortion rights more deeply than men do. Women might simply be more polarized than men on abortion rights.) It turns out that, apparently, they more or less don't: in a 2011 Gallup poll (and you find similar results in earlier Gallup polls), 36% of men and 37% of women said that abortion should be legal in all or most circumstances; 61% of men and 60% of women said that abortion should be legal in few circumstances or none. 19% of men and 24% of women said that abortion should be illegal in all circumstances, which would probably be an excellent predictor of support for Santorum. (On the moral as opposed to legal question, 51% of men and 51% of women said that abortion is morally wrong; 40% of men and 39% of women said that abortion is morally acceptable.)
Hey, did you know that Ron Paul (or, rather, Ron Paul candidates running to be delegates) won a plurality of votes in the Virigin Islands caucus, but Paul ended up with one delegate while Romney got seven? American politics is awesome!
Also, did you know (probably you did; how did I not know this?) that Romney's full name is Willard Mitt Romney, and that he was named after his father's buddy J. Willard Marriott of Marriott hotels and also his father's cousin Milton "Mitt" Romney of the Chicago Bears? Here I'd just assumed, I guess, that "Mitt" is some kind of name American rugged individualists give their kids, like Trig. (On one hand, you just can't see a guy called Willard Romney being elected president. But on the other hand, Will Romney, now that could be a president. Come to think of it, if Mitt Romney were to be elected president, I guess he would be the first president whose name is, like, not an actual name.)
