This gem from Associated Press' new poll on ghosts: By 31 percent to 18 percent, more liberals than conservatives report seeing a specter.
"It's because of the sheer number of failed programs that are coming back to haunt them," quipped one Senate Republican aide, explaining the high liberal number.
Some of the other findings, thankfully all of them nonpolitical:
* Three in 10 have awakened sensing a strange presence in the room. For whatever it says about matrimony, singles are more likely than married people to say so.
* 14 percent — mostly men and lower-income people — say they have seen a UFO.
* Spells and witchcraft are more readily believed by urban dwellers, minorities and lower-earning people.
* Those who find credibility in ESP are more likely to be better educated and white — 51 percent of college graduates compared to 37 percent with a high school diploma or less, about the same proportion by which white believers outnumber minorities.
— Stephen Dinan, national political reporter, The Washington Times
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People that depend and deal with nature on a first hand basis are more pragmatic in their expectations and therefore their approach to uncertainty. They understand that nature can give them everything one day and take it away in an augenblick. I guess thats what the media calls the 'cowboy' approach and good or bad, it is an integral part of our history and what got us where we are today.
Posted by Larry Stone | October 27, 2007 12:24 PM