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From: PJS@GROUCH.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: State SPACEPAC rankings
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Date: 13 Feb 89 17:34:29 GMT
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This is excerpted from the space activists' digest 
(space-activists@turing.cs.rpi.edu):

>Subject: Spacepac ratings by State
>From: Scott Pace <pace%tp3@rand.org>
 
>In playing with the last set of Congressional ratings by Spacepac (1988
>edition), we took averages for each State's House delegation.  This gave us
>a rough measure of the Spacepac "rating" of each state.  Ratings of 70% or
>more were called pro-space, while 0-50% were called anti-space. This gave
>us 15 pro-space states, 9 anti-space states, and 26 "swing" states.
 
>The ranking was:
>Alaska          91    [#1]

Excuse me???  I mean, I can understand figures like

>Florida         87.6  [#3]

and naturally

>Wisconsin       43.3  [#45]

although I was surprised somewhat by the poor standing of

>California      66.5  [#20]

but why in God's name is Alaska *first*, significantly beyond the pack??
What are they doing up there to get that kind of support???!!?

Peter Scott (pjs@grouch.jpl.nasa.gov)