re: #99 celticdragon

Actually it is a fuction of people generally associating with like minded people, which produces something called false correlation. You tend to assume that the people you are with and their attitudes are representative of everybody in your area. A famous example is the female reporter who was aghast that Nixon had won the Presidency. She couldn’t understand how he had won, since she didn’t know anybody who had voted for him.

I saw that happening here as the election approached. People (mostly the old crowd) simply could not process that Obama was clearly going to win the presidency.