3D Election Results Map by County 463
FlopEJoe writes "There are many web-based electoral maps available on the regular news sites (Electorial-vote, CNN) but this image 3d county results seemed more profound to me. Wish I had more to say about it but I don't want to cloud the discussion. I think it speaks for itself and the spin-masters should enjoy it."
Correlations (Score:3, Interesting)
What software was used?
I was modded down as troll for saying this (Score:3, Interesting)
In France there was a very racist party (Front National) and the people who would vote for them were on average less educated than people who voted for other parties. The FN leader, Le Pen, said it had to do with the propaganda we have in schools against the FN. Which of course wasn't believed by anyone but the people without an education.
Re:I was modded down as troll for saying this (Score:2, Interesting)
I believe that religion factors into this as well. People who are more religious all like Bush. People who are less or not religious at all support Kerry. I guess this could factor into intelligence as well, as it seems the smarter in general you are less likely you are to believe in God or other religious tokens/aspects.
Re:I was modded down as troll for saying this (Score:5, Interesting)
If learning about evolution and not creationism in science class is liberal - than I guess we are for now.
To me, I think the republican party stands for religion more than anything else. They have lost the principles of small government and fiscal responsibility. They have also lost the ideals of isolationism in world affairs. The one defining characteristic of the current republican party is Christian "values." Of course affordable healthcare so people don't die in the street is also a value. Giving people a wage they can live off of is also a value. But those don't count I guess.
Re:Urban regions surrounded (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Doesn't look right to me (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Ummm... (Score:3, Interesting)
African American Vote (Score:3, Interesting)
I'd say they have more to do with African American population, since 88% of them voted democratic [cnn.com]which is by far the largest margin in any racial grouping. 88% of African Americans also live in metropolitan areas [wikipedia.org] according to the 2000 census.
The Republican party must find a way to reach out to these people or at least somehow counter the perception that Republicans are racists.
New York State .vs. New York City (Score:2, Interesting)
If you look at the New York map, you see that most of the state is either pro-Bush, neutral, or weak-Kerry. The only really strong area of support for Kerry in New York State was New York City. It's a sad but true fact that one city can out-vote the rest of the state.
I think that's how Hillary Clinton was elected too. I don't know of anyone upstate who was in strong support of her (well, in the Finger Lakes region anyway. But I did see plenty of anti-Hillary signs at the time), but yet she won anyway. There weren't enough non-Hillary votes in the rest of the state to counteract the pro-Hillary votes in NYC.
It would be interesting if the electoral college could be split along districts. Like if say, the popular vote got the 2 senators votes for the state, and then each district had its representative vote the way that district voted. If that was the case, I'd think that Kerry would have had at most 10 votes in New York State for the electoral college. But considering the current system, he swept the whole state.
Hoax (Score:2, Interesting)
Anybody who's gone near a statistics book knows it's ludicrous to think an entire state could have an average IQ that's one sigma away from nominal mean.
Re:What's so profound? (Score:3, Interesting)
And just because something was written into the founding documents doesn't make it right, or appicable to todays world. After all, the Constitution [archives.gov] had provisions for slavery in it. See Article 1, Section 2, third paragraph.
See, I can look up historical documents, too!
Re:Ummm... (Score:3, Interesting)
It would also help if they mixed the red and blue in the proportion of the votes.
Re:I was modded down as troll for saying this (Score:3, Interesting)
Universities (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:African American Vote (Score:3, Interesting)
That is an important point. Bush's win was decided on 'moral issues' which the conservatives have claimed as thier mantra.
I cannot understand how these 'moral' people can overlook lying to the American people, Congress and the World, invading another country without provocation, killing tens of thousands of civilians, torturing prisoners, even using sexual humilitation...but hey, they were REALLY bad guys...They have ignored the Genova Convention, which is supposed to protect our own troops too...How can you call this man moral? What criteria are the Good Christians using to make this judgement?
Re:African American Vote (Score:3, Interesting)
Why should we reach out to anyone? Last time I checked, we won the election hands down. Considering how many people voted for Kerry and also voted for constitutional amendments banning gay marriage, I'd say Republicans should become more conservative, not less. (I bring up gay marriage as one example, especially since it's likely that blacks who voted for Kerry voted against gay marriage...ergo, if Republicans had come down harder on gay marriage, they would've gotten more black votes.)
Next time the Democrats pick up a net gain in both houses, capture the White House, and add more governships to their belt, then we can talk about the Republicans changing their stance on the issues. For now, though, it looks like more Americans agree with us, than you.
Re:Fucking Christian Wackjobs (Score:2, Interesting)