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Old Posted Nov 26, 2008, 5:07 AM
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Yup, the election proved the census wrong big time. According to the census there are 194,646 people 18 years or older in the city. In this last election...147,439 people voted in the city of New Orleans. That would mean that 75.7% of all the adult population voted in the city. Not just registered voters, but the entire adult population. That does not seem realistic as on average only about 70% of the U.S. adult population is registered to vote. Turn out in Louisiana was around 70% of that initial 70%. If you take a 70% turnout of registered voters that would give a number of 210,627 for total registered voters in New Orleans. Then...assuming that 210,627 is probably around 70% of the total adult population...you get a number of 300,896 for the adult population of the city. According to the census the adult population makes up 77.5% percent of the city...so the total population would be 388,253. My numbers may be a bit high, but it's safe to say the city has somewhere between 325,000 and 350,000 people. We won't really know the true number until census 2010 rolls around.
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