Posted on 11/11/2008 4:38:45 PM PST by savvyguy
If I wanted to be taken seriously on here, do you really think I’d be using the name “Joe 6-pack”?
I’m one of the few homely people that people feel compelled to watch closely ;-)
Well done Oklahoma, maybe the only solidly red state. Not even Native American reservations from what I can see, probably pulled some blue out in places like Utah.
Thanks. We don’t have Indian reservations - our Indians live and work and go to school among us, although some do live in Indian housing within our cities and towns.
Yes, and that also tells me that we're dangerously close to having more parasite voters than producer voters (IE: More voters at the public trough than taxpayers). Once we reach that point, it's all over.
IMHO, we'd be a lot better off if voting was limited to say, people who pay property taxes. When you get your property tax bill, you get an annual renewable voter registration card.
Also, with the early voting it gives someone a lot of time to bus/fly from state to state and cast ballots. Look at what happened in Ohio this year. One guy lived in England and flew in to Ohio to vote and it probably occured in other states that allow lenient residency and way too early voting. As a matter of fact, Ohio had started early voting before the last debate started. The whole thing makes me sick to my stomach and the realization that we have become a third world country is depressing, but what’s worse is that nobody is doing anthing about it. Right in front of our eyes its happening and I feel we are powerless to stop it.
You DO realize, of course, that the people in the smaller blue regions number as many people as the larger red regions, right? So, BY THE NUMBERS we are split almost 50.50 red and blue?
Territory does not equal votes.
That is what makes the fractal map (the second map) at deport’s post #73 so interesting. I believe that this is a computer generated map where county size is adjusted by population.
In it we see an area representation of the county areas based upon population totals for each county, not based upon square miles of land area. The map is then grouped geographically to be equivelent to real geography in its spacial relationships between counties.
The problem with that map is that it doesn’t take into account the relative strengths of the various areas in the U.S. in terms of the electoral votes and/or the popular votes...
See the following — and then you can see how “squeezed” the red areas are —
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/
http://www.wmhartnett.com/2008/11/10/county-level-2008-election-results-as-3d-maps/
People in this state are as dumb as turkeys.
They have no core beliefs, except belief in the Packers and beer.
How else does one get multiple terms of Tommy Thompson followed by James Doyle?
I don’t believe it has anything to do with a dramatically changing demographic.
It’s just what the cowpie said to do that day, I guess. Or the consensus of the buddies at the bar.
Okay, I feel about one per cent better getting that off my chest.
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