Notes From All Over, Politics ,Part 1 -- January 18, 2020

On the way to something else, I stumbled across this:

It explains why Senator Collins was forced to clarify her views on the impending impeachment trial in the US Senate and it's pretty clear to me how she will end up voting in that trial.

There is a new national poll out today, SUSA, 1/14 - 1/16, link here:

• Biden polls above 30% in any poll for first time in a long time, at 32%
• Sanders: 21%; right where he's been all along
• Pocahontas: at 14%, at the low end of her polling
• Buttigieg: 9%
• Bloomberg: 9%
• Klobuchar, a legend in her own mind: 2%; I just don't get it; later today there will be any number of articles suggesting how Klobuchar continues to surge; once she goes behind the cloistered impeachment US Senate walls, her 15 minutes of fame will be over;

Also , it appears, link here, there is a new New Hampshire poll, Emerson, 1/13 - 1/16:

• Sanders: a commanding lead at 23%; about where he has been all along
• Buttigieg: 18% -- which is probably pretty accurate, and if so, quite a surge
• Biden: 14%
• Pocahontas: 14%
• Klobuchar: 10% -- wow, maybe I am wrong -- maybe Klobuchar will peak at just the right moment;

SUSA also has a new California poll, link here, 1/14 - 1/16 (remember, the last Democrat debate was 1/14):

• Klouchar, a legend in her own mind: 2%
• Steyer: 4%
• Bloomberg: 6%
• Buttigieg: 8%
• Pocahontas: 20%
• Sanders: 20%
• Biden: 30%

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Weights and Measurements

The other day I posted a note defining an acre as a "chain times a furlong."  A reader replied with this:

• ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi
• 2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton
• 1 millionth of a mouthwash: 1 microscope
• time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour: 1 Knot-furlong
• 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling: 1 lite year
• 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Serling
• half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon
• 1000 aches: 1 megahurtz
• basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower
• 2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds
• 10 cards: 1 decacards
• 1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton
• 1000 grams of wet socks: 1 literhosen
• 1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin
• 10 rations: 1 decoration
• 8 nickels: 2 paradigms
• 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital: 1 I.V. League