The map for Hitlery's election showed the same thing. She got more than 1,000,000 votes greater than Lazio in NYC!
I live in California and have been developing a similar analysis. While LA and SF continue solid blue, the surrounding counties are becoming more red.
The populations of the surrounding counties, the bedroom communities, are growing rapidly as people flee the high housing prices of the urban areas. But, these areas are not turning Blue as they are transformed from rural to suburban.
I haven't laid my hands on exact county by county numbers yet, but my sense is that the margin of Kerry's win is smaller than the margin for Gore's win in 2000.
It appears that the Red tide is rolling in on the Blue coast and the Blue stongholds are becoming isolated islands of socialism.
More to come...
dung.
My 12-year-old asked me why the large cities were the blue zones. I told her about the lab experiements done on rats. They act crazy when too many of them are confined in a too small space. I think those lab experiments explain a lot.
In the past, Democrats have won statewide office by winning only five - yes, five - counties. Upstate looks huge, until you realize that much of it is nothing but a watershed for downstate.
Kind or ironic that the terrorist want to destroy those cities and the only thing standing between them and that goal is GWB.
Which brings up an interesting question. OK, maybe it isn't so interesting, but it is a question. If all states divided up their electors according to the popular vote, how would it have changed the electoral college this time around?
mlstier,What about Pa-I am blue.
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....