# I Pit the new Norwegian government.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-new-norwegian-government/670342>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 4, 2013, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-new-norwegian-government/670342 "2013-10-04T12:52:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Septima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Septima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Septima)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-new-norwegian-government/670342/121 "2016-03-21T13:37:49Z")

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I’ts my hyperbolic take one what occasionally happens on this board 😃

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**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-new-norwegian-government/670342/122 "2016-03-21T16:24:43Z")

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> [@adaher](#):
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> Actually, Republicans tend to win college educated voters. Democrats tend to win the non college educated plus postgraduates. If Democrats had to rely on the smart vote they’d be lucky to have a single Senate seat.

This smells like your ass, is that where you pulled it out of?

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**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-new-norwegian-government/670342/123 "2016-03-21T17:16:23Z")

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> [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#):
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> I see that Norway has joined the US in being a first-world country where a substantial part of the population only have one pharmacy and one doctor to go.

The average population density of Norway is one of the lowest in the world - 14 per square km.

And that doesn’t really reflect just how thin the population is in most of it, because 80% of the population live in cities, which means 1 million people are spread out in an area that in US terms would stretch from San Diego to Seattle. Think half the population of New Mexico, in the same area.

So funnily enough, some people may indeed only have access to one pharmacy and one doctor.

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