By the Numbers: Pastor Warren’s Presidential Forum
By Masoud Shafaee - Aug 18th, 2008 at 11:28 am5 - Number of times Barack Obama was interrupted by applause during Saturday’s presidential forum hosted by Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church, an evangelical megachurch located in Orange County, California.
20 - Number of times John McCain was interrupted by applause during the same forum.
60 - Percentage of 2006 voters who voted Republican in California’s 48th congressional district, where Saddleback Church is located.
37 - Percentage who voted Democrat.
12.3% - National poverty rate.
6.3% - Poverty rate in California’s 48th congressional district.
$48,201 - National median household income.
$69,663 - Median household income in California’s 48th congressional district.
2 - Number of times Pastor Warren said that John McCain was in an isolated “cone of silence” while Barack Obama answered questions identical to those that would be posed to McCain later in the broadcast.
0 - Number of minutes that McCain was actually kept in an isolated sound-proof area. (The senator was in his TV-equipped private motorcade at the time.)
Sources: CNN, California Secretary of State’s Office, US Census Bureau (1, 2), Almanac of American Politics 2008, NY Times.
john mccain was interrupted 20 times? eck
August 18th, 2008 at 12:18 pmI love this.
The median household income does not do justice to the kind of not-middle-America crowd this was.
August 18th, 2008 at 6:10 pm