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Amazon's political reading map shows which way your neighbors are leaning
engadget.com ^ | Daniel Cooper

Posted on 08/22/2012 4:31:38 AM PDT by st.eqed

Religion, bathroom routines and politics are three things you should never, ever discuss at the dinner table. However, if you're curious about your neighbors' political reading habits, then you should check out Amazon's Election Heat Map. The bookseller rated the top 250 books with a "clear political bias," with each state's graphic turning red or blue depending on which tomes are selling the most.

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I do hope the reading preferences match the voting constituency. It would make for some interesting next couple of months.
1 posted on 08/22/2012 4:31:46 AM PDT by st.eqed
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To: st.eqed
OK - the key to the map - if I hadn't known it ahead of time, was the color of Washington, DC.

Strange that CA is any hue of red...

2 posted on 08/22/2012 4:36:15 AM PDT by grobdriver (Proud Member, Party of No! Nobama, No Way, No How!)
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To: st.eqed

Measures, to the extent it does, the political orientation of that subset of the population which buys books from Amazon.

While politically incorrect to mention it, I would expect that black and Hispanic voters buy fewer books from Amazon than do white voters.

I’m in a lot of homes in my line of work, mostly upper-end ones, and it is amazing to me how many of them have few/no books around.


3 posted on 08/22/2012 4:37:30 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: st.eqed
Sorry to burst all of your bubbles, but let's not forget, to be reading politically oriented books, one must be able to read.
4 posted on 08/22/2012 4:44:14 AM PDT by motor_racer (Pete, do you ever get tired, of the driving?)
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To: Sherman Logan

Yes, but it is encouraging to see that conservatism sells. Chick-fil-a was just the beginning. (I hope)


5 posted on 08/22/2012 4:47:31 AM PDT by st.eqed
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To: Sherman Logan
"I’m in a lot of homes in my line of work, mostly upper-end ones, and it is amazing to me how many of them have few/no books around."

Don't overlook ebooks. The percentage of electronic book downloads has been moving up rapidly and IIRC it is just about 1/2 of all Amazon book sales.

6 posted on 08/22/2012 4:49:03 AM PDT by Truth29
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Larry, at least one of your books was one the list that made Amazon's red state/blue state map.

www.amazon.com/election-heatmap

7 posted on 08/22/2012 4:52:14 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Recycled Olympic tagline Shut up, Bob Costas. Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!)
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To: grobdriver

Not if we are experiencing Carter part deux...which can only mean one thing...Reagan landslide!!!


8 posted on 08/22/2012 4:52:45 AM PDT by surfer (To err is human, to really foul things up takes a Democrat, don't expect the GOP to have the answer!)
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Larry, at least one of your books was one the list that made Amazon's red state/blue state map.

www.amazon.com/election-heatmap

(sent to the right person this time)

9 posted on 08/22/2012 4:54:18 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Recycled Olympic tagline Shut up, Bob Costas. Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!)
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To: Truth29

No, e books is not the reason. Ignorance is the reason. They don’t have nor read any books.

People with kindles have books laying around all over.


10 posted on 08/22/2012 4:59:19 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
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To: st.eqed
I'm don't buy the way Amazon is evaluating the "red/blue" dichotomy. In Texas, one of the top five "blue" books is Robert Caro's biography of LBJ; to anyone who has ever read one, they can by no means be described as Democrat -- they make LBJ out to be one of the biggest bastards to ever be sent to Washington. Conversely, two of the top five "red" books are Blowhard O'Reilly's book on the Lincoln assassination -- how in hell is that in any way "Republican" (except to the extent that Lincoln was one)?

Pure silliness.

11 posted on 08/22/2012 4:59:39 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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For the blue states, I would assume many of the books came with a lot of pictures. But I’m getting ahead of the game. Most Democrats are Dems because they don’t read much of anything. The ones that can read use their minimal reading skills only to read the instructions on how to use the bong.


12 posted on 08/22/2012 5:04:03 AM PDT by driftless2
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This map makes no sense. Is it saying more people from Mississippi read more conservative books that all the others?


13 posted on 08/22/2012 5:09:41 AM PDT by Terry Mross (To all my relatives and former friends: Do not contact me if you still love obama.)
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To: st.eqed

(zipping up flameproof suit) Mississippi is dark red because the one guy who can read there bought an Ann Coulter book.

:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)


14 posted on 08/22/2012 5:42:43 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.")
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To: st.eqed

Sorry, but this map doesn’t tell me anything about what my neighbors are reading. Unless you mean my neighboring state.


15 posted on 08/22/2012 6:11:10 AM PDT by GnL
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To: st.eqed

“Dreams” is down to #39 on the demwitted side.


16 posted on 08/22/2012 6:22:54 AM PDT by bgill
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Strange that CA is any hue of red...

It's only 51% red but for loonyland, that says something. D.C. is 78% blue proving once again Congress checked their cajones at the city limit sign.

17 posted on 08/22/2012 6:30:17 AM PDT by bgill
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To: grobdriver

These are book orders. You could have many liberals there who cannot read or don’t read English titles off Amazon.


18 posted on 08/22/2012 6:30:33 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: st.eqed

It’s been my experience that liberal political books almost never sell.


19 posted on 08/22/2012 6:33:19 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Probably because Abby Hoffman taught Libs that if there’s a book you want, go out and steal it.


20 posted on 08/22/2012 6:34:23 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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