Election Day & Dead Trends

It's election day and Dangerous Dave talks about some election day stats. Plus, trends that died off as fast as they started like figgit spinners and flash mobs.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Please, he's deeper in the den with dangerous day. Today
is election day, and you better be voting because, according
to the polls, vote could make the difference. Some election
day facts, stats, and silliness for you from the Internet
ITU polled. Twenty one percent of Americans said they've gotten
into an argument over politics, whether a print or a

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family member in the past year. Another nine percent have
argued with a co worker, and six percent argued with
their own spouse or partner, and five percent argued with
a neighbor. Sixty percent of people said they haven't argued
politics with any of those people. Fifteen percent of people
said they regret how they voted in previous elections, and
boomers and millennials are the two generations that have the

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most regrets. Twelve percent of people said they're very likely
or somewhat likely that someday they will regret this voting election.
Men more likely than women. An online poll said they're
willing to sell their vote. Thirty four percent said no,
they want to vote themselves, no matter of cost, but
another thirty four percent said that seller vote for at

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least five grand. Twelve percent would do it for one
thousand to five thousand Twenty one percent said that seller
vote for pretty much any amount. Here's a six pack,
all right. Another online poll said, if you give up
that right in exchange for eternal luck, ninety four percent
said yeah, they would do that. People were asked what
they thought was the most important traits in a president.

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Top eight their decision making ability, leadership skills, honesty, mental health,
vision for America's future, integrity, intelligence, and their ability to
stay calm under pressure. The least two important personal wealth
and physical attractiveness. Twenty seven percent also prefer a president
who's a pet owner. Fourteen percent believed that America's electoral

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system is the best in the world, five percent say
it's the worst, and most people believe it's about average,
a little better than average, or a little worse. Forty
six percent of people wish they could change a straight
popular vote so that everybody's vote counts exactly the same.
Thirty two percent like the current system of electoral votes,

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and twenty two percent were not sure. Fifty seven percent
believed that this could be the most important election for
their lifetime, and eighteen percent believe the other ones were
more important. Fifteen percent said the same or less. Three
percent actually think it was much less important. Thirty five
percent of eligible voters this year will belong to a

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racial or ethnic minority group, making twenty four electoral most
diverse in US history. Turnout in US has soared in
recent elections, but America still trails many other countries. Twenty
twenty presidential elections, sixty two point eight percent of voting
age population in the US voted. Compared to recent national

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elections in forty nine countries, US ranked thirty first, Colombia
sixty two point five percent, in Greece sixty three point
We were right in between those two. So get out
and vote in the t well. It seems like there's
constantly new trends happening everywhere. They spread like wildfire thanks
to social media. But some of those trends seemed to

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disappear as quickly as they arrived. They're a little less
like a wildfire, more like a match you blew out
your birthday candles with. Anyway, somebody recently asked the Internet
what trend died so fast you can hardly call it
a trend. Some of the best responses is back in
the nineties, when kids walk around with pacifiers in their
mouth and hang it around their necks. I remember that
that was just dumb. The pulog on everything mustache is

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on everything Gangnam Style by SI. Remember that whoop Gangham
style flash mobs. Yeah, those were a big thing for
a very short time. Anything from spencers like selfie sticks,
fidget spinners and salt lamps, backwards clothes a La criss
cross planking, segways or hoverboards, Flappy Bird game nineties, unexpected

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musical trends like the Benedictine monks. I remember that NFTs,
Google Glass and Google Plus and whatever. Very mindful, very
demur was a few weeks ago. So there's a lot
of trends that seemed to come and go as quickly
as they got here, Especially now with TikTok. There's so
many of them, it's so easy to ignore most of them.

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