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Election Maps weighted by percentage

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I am not sure if these have been posted yet. I have not found them on here yet
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/
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From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue;
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So this is what America really looks like. :shock:

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fgalkin wrote:So this is what America really looks like. :shock:


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From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue;
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Best map ever.

I'm going to have nightmares now.
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:shock:

That looks so incredibly fucked up...
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look it's a fractal
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Pretty butterfly...
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Oh God, if I've got to put up with another four years of this KILL ME NOW!
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Found this one, I'll post it here :D
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:wtf: that looks like something one would find on the puke guard on a tilt-a-whirl.
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wautd wrote:Found this one, I'll post it here :D
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The worst nightmare imaginable...
It's a fucking joke for God's sake untwist your damn panties!
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frigidmagi wrote:
The worst nightmare imaginable...
It's a fucking joke for God's sake untwist your damn panties!
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

And IMO overdone at this point (yes I'm guilty of it too)...
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So the hentai-like tentacles of red sweep sensually over the small, weak, innocent blue.... I've already said too much.
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Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba wrote:So the hentai-like tentacles of red sweep sensually over the small, weak, innocent blue.... I've already said too much.
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Florida looks like a wang.
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Joe wrote:Florida looks like a wang.
No shit Sherlock :P
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frigidmagi wrote:
The worst nightmare imaginable...
It's a fucking joke for God's sake untwist your damn panties!
Hell, I know it's a joke, I'm just commenting on how horrible it would be if it wasn't a joke. Tree hugging hippie socialists running one country while redneck fundie crusaders run the other...with absolutely nowhere for those of us who stand in the middle of the political spectrum to go.
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frigidmagi wrote:
The worst nightmare imaginable...
It's a fucking joke for God's sake untwist your damn panties!
After you see it 60 million times, it's no longer funny.
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Frankly, the Jesusland and Emperor Dubya stuff is both vastly overdone. Yet, somehow, I doubt either will leave. Curses upon the easily amused.

And that map looks like something I threw up yesterday.
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I thought this one with the use of purple shades as well as red & blue was the probably the best representation of the US during the election.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/ele ... rlarge.png
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fgalkin wrote:So this is what America really looks like. :shock:

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Post by Glocksman »

That map does put paid to all the assholes spouting their 'Two Americas' rhetoric about the 'progressive' coasts and the 'reactionary' heartland, though.

The thing that's being overlooked is that Bush won by almost 4 million votes. Not a huge majority (and nowhere near enough to claim a mandate), but a majority nonetheless.
To get that nationwide majority, a lot of people in the 'blue' states voted for him.
Similarly, even here in Indiana (which last went Democrat for President in 1964), Kerry got 39% of the vote*.

Would this kind of bullshit even be an issue if we had a direct popular vote instead of the misleading 'red/blue' state maps?

*Interestingly enough, our Democratic Senator Evan Bayh won with 62% (to Bush's 61% margin) of the vote. Support for Bush didn't translate into being brainless straight ticket punching automata in this state. :P
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Tsyroc wrote:I thought this one with the use of purple shades as well as red & blue was the probably the best representation of the US during the election.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/ele ... rlarge.png
I don't know what's scarier... the fact that so much of the midWest was straight red, or the fact that I could pick out WV from the muddy purples.
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Post by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi »

Joe wrote:Florida looks like a wang.
Didn't Shep say that it could be better described as a turd that Georgia's shitting out, but can't get out a while back?

Now does anyone else have an electoral map even more screwed up-looking than that one with the shades of purple and county size based on population?
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