The fallacy that New York State is a Blue state.

[mlstier]

Looking at the 2004 Presidential election county-by-county map, I noticed that most of New York State is red.

I decided to crunch the number, and realized that:

1) Kerry won New York State 59/41
2) Kerry won New York City 75/25
3) Kerry won New York State (sans the NYC metropolatin area) by only 50.5/49.5. (Just the flip of the national split.)

As the complete county-by-county map proves. Liberalism, as enspoused by the Democrats, only thrives in metropolatin cites like Boston/NYC/Philly/DC/LA/SF.

New York City Metro area: Manhattan, Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Westchester, Nassau

[cherry]

the color schemes are nice, and do indicate the amount of territory that W has earned.....

let's not fool ourselves.....the population of the Blues hold the power in many states....New York, Washington, California.....look at Oregon ...its almost criminal that such a large area is controlled by such a small section of land...

but that's just the way it is....

[gentlestrength]

No, Kerry only had 1,254,983 votes more than Bush in Oregon, Washington, AND California. He won those three states by only slightly over ONE PERCENT of all the votes cast in all fifty states!! That's all.

[Styria]

You have Ithaca's red dot one county too far East. =)

If New York State were divided, I would still want to keep Albany and the Hudson down to the Pallisades, though.

[Styria]

ACK! My mistake. Ithaca was placed right. I really do need more sleep.

[Clemenza]

If Massapequa voted for Bush, I guess the Italians now have the upper hand over the chosen people in what was once "Matzoh Pizza."