{"id":10263,"date":"2006-08-31T21:21:44","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T01:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/08\/31\/10263.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:55:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:55:15","slug":"smith-is-one-of-course-and-mar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2006\/08\/31\/smith-is-one-of-course-and-mar\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith is one, of course, and Martinez is nineteen."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

YHB’s Gracious Host<\/a> links to The Sweetest Sound: Popularity Index<\/a>. This is a widget for finding out how common a particular surname is. YHB’s surname, for instance, is around the 1,500th most frequently occurring in the US. My Best Reader, on the other hand, is out of the database, which means it’s not in the top 50,000.\nBeing who I am, it wasn’t long before I started typing in the following names:\n

Kennedy: 120\n

Johnson: 2\n

Nixon: 813\n

Ford: 108\n

Carter: 41\n

Reagan: 2035\n

Bush: 311\n

Clinton: 1703<\/blockquote>\nCoincidence? You be the judge. For further consideration:\n

Goldwater: 31,662\n

Humphrey: 643\n

McGovern: 2,011\n

Mondale : more than 55,000\n

Dukakis: more than 55,000\n

Gore: 1,119\n

Kerry: 14,762<\/blockquote>\nOh, all right.\n

Richardson: 64\n

Edwards: 50\n

Warner: 366\n

Bayh: more than 55,000\n

McCain: 1,579\n

Romney: 17,519\n

Frist: more than 55,000<\/blockquote>\nFor what it’s worth, Bradley ranks 191. So it’s not like the fellow with the lowest number wins. And it’s not even (what I had thought likely) that you pretty much have to have a number below 2,000 (or so) to get the nomination, or even to get far enough in a political career to have a decent chance at the nomination. Eisenhower ranks way up there at 22,546. Although\n

Dupont: 3428\n

Buchanan: 429\n

Forbes: 1017\n

Gephart: 16,540\n

Dean: 235\n

Sharpton: 21,589\n

Clark: 21\n

Graham: 101\n

Lieberman: 3619\n

Braun: 984\n

Kucinich: more than 55,000<\/blockquote>\n

OK, I think that’ll do.\n

chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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