More people fill out NCAA brackets than actually vote
Source: Fox Sports
Heres one thing millions of Americans can agree on: March Madness is fun, especially when theres a little money on the line.
So fun, in fact, that more people will fill out NCAA Tournament brackets this week than voted for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in last years presidential election.
Read more: http://www.foxsports.com/san-diego/story/more-people-fill-out-ncaa-brackets-than-actually-vote-031317
The rest of the article was about gambling, so I refrained from including it, but feel free to check out the link if pure interested.
House of Roberts
(5,119 posts)when they're supposed to be working.
JDC
(10,081 posts)Heddi
(18,312 posts)They don't have to take off work early, or leave mid-day, or even ask for the time off. They don't have to stand in long lines and show 87 forms of identification. They don't have to waste time at the DMV getting said identification at a cost.
Makes sense to me
maxsolomon
(32,975 posts)He whined about having to get a stamp.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,282 posts)postage should be free for ballots and tax returns.
I refused, so I burned half a gallon of gasoline to drop off the ballots at the city clerk's office. That'll show'em.
csziggy
(34,119 posts)Now, they can mail crap to us for free - it should be the other way around.
I agree - it should be free to mail ballots and tax returns.
WilmywoodNCparalegal
(2,654 posts)Filled out plenty of brackets, de rigueur since I went to college in the state of NC and I'm a fervent Duke fan.
Couldn't vote until I became a US citizen in September 2016. While this is a sad stat, keep in mind that non-citizens and those below voting age can fill brackets but can't vote. You can also fill unlimited numbers of brackets.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,282 posts)... according to Trump.
Congratulations on citizenship.
kacekwl
(6,993 posts)screen will go blank and then comrade trump will appear on screen and then it will be too late to vote. I'm all for having fun but priorities folks, priorities.
onenote
(42,374 posts)Approximately 70 million brackets will be filled out. But many people fill out more than one bracket, so the actual number of people filling out brackets is probably around 50 million. And that includes some number of people who are ineligible to vote.
Meanwhile, around 130 million people cast ballots in the 2016 election.
http://fortune.com/2016/03/14/bets-ncaa-march-madness/
Calista241
(5,584 posts)onenote
(42,374 posts)The number of voting age individuals filling out brackets is almost certainly less than the 60 million people plus people that voted for trump or the even larger number that voted for Clinton.
RussBLib
(8,983 posts)something FOX does well. Fake news. Fake sports. Demoralization.
I have to say I have never filled one out. I used to be a sports fanatic when I was a kid (the San Francisco Giants baseball team, to be exact) but I shook it off in high school.
Verbose Matthias
(68 posts)SansACause
(520 posts)People might actually start believing what's in those "stories." Ignoring things like people filling out multiple NCAA brackets.