Posted on 11/08/2004 5:02:09 PM PST by BushMeister
Another reason in favor of the electoral college is that substantive voter fraud becomes more difficult. Certainly, if an election comes down to one or two states, voter fraud can play a decisive role, but that's still far better than having 50 separate statewide Dem fraud mills running in order to win a simple nationwide popular vote to take an election.
I envy them! What can I do to make my state solid red? Oklahoma and Nebraska are definitely leaders in the "Red State Republic"
Well, if you're running Win XP, use the Photo Printing Wizard.
It went to sKerry by 7 votes. One proud liberal who lives in LA but has a cabin in Mono voted absentee and was interviewed in the MSM, he was proud to make a difference, big difference, LOL, what idiots.
Wow....is there any place I can Buy this? I don't want to print it out...too much ink and they paper will bubble..
Yes, that's the Ketchum, Hailey, Sun Valley area.
Lots of weirdos there.
use windows picture and fax viewer. it worked for me.
Sorry, I just saw the map on another website; don't know anything more about it. I'm sure once a definitive map is available (after all the votes have been certified), a good, large-sized county vote map will become available.
The height of each county is not based on TOTAL population (or the total number of votes), but on the NET votes for the winner (Bush/red, Kerry/blue) in that county. So a county that voted for Bush 200,000 to Kerry's 170,000 would be colored blue (Bush win) with a "height" of 30,000 net votes for Bush (i.e., 30,000 votes for Bush over and above the 170,000 that both candidates each received).
A county that was almost 50% v 50% for the two candidates would be very "flat" compared to one that had a very lopsided outcome. And even lopsided votes in very low-population counties would be pretty "flat" also, because even if 100% of the people voted for one candidate, that still wouldn't be a lot of votes for that candidate.
That's what makes this 3D map so useful, information-wise. It shows how much each county's votes has actually contributed to the potential win/loss amount in the final outcome. "Flat" counties on the map, either through low population or 50/50 vote split (or both) are not the ones that really make a difference to the outcome. The "tall" counties are the ones that skew the outcome one way or the other, by bumping the win/loss differential.
With just a glance at the map, it's easy to see just how very few counties (usually containing big cities) are almost the entire base for the Democrats, due to large, heavily Democrat-leaning populations.
Bush, on the other hand, gets a good amount of support from all over the country.
Ahh Sooo. Thanks for the time to explain. It is awesome!
Mind if we call you Bruce?
Thanks for confirming my hunch about the soil.
It gets better in Mono. From what I'm hearing, they haven't done their absentee count yet. Once that is done, it'll be red.
Jackson Hole. Home of Harrison Ford and other lefty weenies.
does anyone know if there is still alot of absentee votes throughout the country not yet counted? i wonder how close bush will get to 60M votes...
Red nose of ME (Washington Co) is ME!!
bump
"Maybe it's something in the water."
Or maybe people that build their homes on the flood plain of the biggest river in North America like having the people in the rest of the country pay to rebuild their homes every rough spring. Not that a Republican administration wouldn't give them the same thing, but the illusion of the left thinkers is that the gov't is here to provide for them in times of crisis, and the Democrats would be more willing to cut loose with more federal funding for repairs.
Here are a couple more maps you might like.
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