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A 4 page research paper that analyzes an article by Robert J. Samuelson, which appeared October 28, 2004 in Newsweek, relative to Samuelson's use of statistics to prove his point about an issue in the 2004 election. The writer describes how Samuelson uses statistics for this purpose. No additional sources cited.
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Democratic nominee Senator John Kerry, want to talk about the true meaning of the Census Bureaus figures on family income and poverty because that would touch on potentially explosive political
issue -- immigration. Samuelsons point is not to relate what should be done, but rather to relate to the public that the Census Bureau figures indicate a problem looming on
the horizon for American society and that neither candidate wants to discuss it. In making this argument, Samuelson uses statistics extremely well. He begins by outlining what the candidates
are willing to talk about--particularly the Democrats-- which is that the Census Bureau figures indicate that in 2003 median household income dropped for the fourth consecutive year to $43,318 (Samuelson,
2004, p. 50). Other damaging statistics for the incumbent administration are that the official poverty rate rose for the third year to 12.5 percent of the population and the number
of people without health insurance also increased, reaching roughly 45 million. While these figures are alarming, Samuelson (2004) argues that they are not the "real deal" (p. 50). He feels
that the census statistics are both better and worse than the candidates would paint them. Essentially, citing appropriate statistics to back up his argument, Samuelson argues that the American
middle class is actually doing pretty good and that the increase in alarming statistics is due to the continuing wave of low-income, poorly educated Hispanic immigrants. He states that
"Hispanics account for most of the increase in poverty" (2004, p. 50). To support this assessment, Samuelson cites the statistic that there were 700,000 fewer non-Hispanic whites in poverty last
year (2004). Furthermore, even though he admits that the poverty rate for African Americans is still appalling high, he points out that it dropped from 32 percent to 24 percent
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