One of the things various Repub. spin doctors tried during the campaign was to call Alaska a "big" state with the implication that there was a large population. Just about every time I heard that I ended up hollering at the radio that there were more people in my home county (Montgomery Co., Md.) than her whole state. (Mont. Co. citizens outnumber current Alaskans by about 250,000 people.)
One thing that has been rolling around in my skull is that the republicans were campaigning to "real america" and they did fairly well in "real america". That had to hurt them some in "fake america" and those maps pretty much reflect that.
Hmm, I wonder if there's a good way to compare the red/purple/blue county map to education and income levels. It sure looks like the red indicates the lower income areas of our country, as well as the less educated regions.
well, the cities are a hard call like that because of how much they're split.
there's "the rich" (republican), the "upper middle class" (democrat, more often voting on social issues), the "lower middle class" (republican, more often voting on social issues), and the poor (democrat, usually minority).
The Republicans know that there's a lot more people in "real america" than in the cities. It's what swung the election the last time and they knew they had to hit hard this time. The Dems on the other hand, rallied the traditionally under-represented populations like immigrants and lower income people which helped swing the vote in their favor but I bet if the US wasn't so sick of Bush, that wouldn't have been as effective. There was only like 8 million votes between Obama and McCain which isn't that much of a lead.
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Geeking out
Date: 2008-11-15 03:53 pm (UTC)Weird, but cool. Thanks for posting.
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Date: 2008-11-15 05:07 pm (UTC)One of the things various Repub. spin doctors tried during the campaign was to call Alaska a "big" state with the implication that there was a large population. Just about every time I heard that I ended up hollering at the radio that there were more people in my home county (Montgomery Co., Md.) than her whole state. (Mont. Co. citizens outnumber current Alaskans by about 250,000 people.)
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Date: 2008-11-15 05:29 pm (UTC)One thing that has been rolling around in my skull is that the republicans were campaigning to "real america" and they did fairly well in "real america". That had to hurt them some in "fake america" and those maps pretty much reflect that.
Hmm, I wonder if there's a good way to compare the red/purple/blue county map to education and income levels. It sure looks like the red indicates the lower income areas of our country, as well as the less educated regions.
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Date: 2008-11-15 05:49 pm (UTC)there's "the rich" (republican), the "upper middle class" (democrat, more often voting on social issues), the "lower middle class" (republican, more often voting on social issues), and the poor (democrat, usually minority).
Re: Geeking out
Date: 2008-11-15 11:39 pm (UTC)