erynthered Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 2000 2004 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 20002004 101068[/snapback] Wow...it's uncanny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erynthered Posted November 4, 2004 Author Share Posted November 4, 2004 Wow...it's uncanny. 101078[/snapback] Wild, eh? Bush got almost 10,000,000. more votes from 2000, yet the maps look so similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Coli Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 Wild, eh? Bush got almost 10,000,000. more votes from 2000, yet the maps look so similar. 101084[/snapback] Not surprising that the counties would be dead on the same four years later. It would be cool to see the voter turn-out comparisons by county compared to the last election. A couple hundred people in either direction, even though the majority went to a certain candidate would have affected the totals for the entire state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erynthered Posted November 4, 2004 Author Share Posted November 4, 2004 It would be cool to see the voter turn-out comparisons by county compared to the last election. 101092[/snapback] In Florida Bush went from a 537 vote win in 2000, to a 370,000 win in 2004. BTW, Nader got 31,000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 thats one red looking map Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Coli Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 thats one red looking map 101129[/snapback] If the county is 200 square miles with only 40 people in it, and 21 voted for Bush, it will be red. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PastaJoe Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 thats one red looking map But it's not really accurate regarding county population sizes. It would look alot more blue if it was sized proportional to the populations in those counties, just as it does when it's done on a map of the state's electoral votes. It does point out the clear differences between urban and rural counties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RabidBillsFanVT Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 A few points from analyzing the map: Did you see the OVERWHELMING loss of ALL counties to Bush in Oklahoma?? Gore won 10 counties, and Kerry won ZERO. Vermont closed in for Kerry except in ONE county, a huge improvement over Gore in 2000. Kerry lost a lot of ground in Tampa Bay/St Pete... for some odd reason. That's something that will be studied for a long time. In Ohio, there are obviously a LOT of distressed voters in the urban areas, and they showed up. Unfortunately, there just weren't enough to overcome the rural Republican stranglehold in the state. Did you see Tennessee? Kerry won a LOT of counties in the state, MORE than Gore, and it's his HOME STATE!! The rural stranglehold works for Bush again. This is obviously a pattern that is common to both elections, and that is urban vs. rural, and West Coast/Industrial Northeast and Northern Midwest vs. South/Midwest/Rural West. These two combined factors make up the divisions in the United States that are so evident! I'll just stay up in New England, and avoid ever living in Nebraska, Wyoming, Alaska, Oklahoma, or Utah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnTheRocks Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 what do the gray areas represent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnTheRocks Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 did the Tex / Mex boarder counties send a message about the boarders to Bush or are they more liberal poor areas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 I heard a great thing on Hardball last night. Matthews referred to the map as being similar to the old maps of "Pakistan" when Bangladesh used to be E. Pakistan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimshiz Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 I think all the blue counties near the cities are due to the stranglehold that the liberals have in those areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnTheRocks Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 what do the gray areas represent? 101254[/snapback] nevermind...i can read....it just takes me a little while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RabidBillsFanVT Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 I think the red states in the rural areas represent the stranglehold of the KzooMike far-right conservatives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimshiz Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 I think the red states in the rural areas represent the stranglehold of the KzooMike far-right conservatives. 101292[/snapback] does not! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buftex Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 All it confirms is that the same people who opposed Bush in 2000, still oppose him. And, the same people who were for Bush in 2000 are still for him. Kerry doesn't figure into the math too much...we are still a very divided country... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsNYC Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 Well...now that Bush doesn't need to be re-elected, he can work towards unifying the country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RabidBillsFanVT Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 I think all the blue counties near the cities are due to the stranglehold that the liberals have in those areas. 101270[/snapback] does not! (Opinions are like BARRY BONDS-ES... everyone's got one!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaska Darin Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 These two combined factors make up the divisions in the United States that are so evident! I'll just stay up in New England, and avoid ever living in Nebraska, Wyoming, Alaska, Oklahoma, or Utah. 101199[/snapback] The good news just keeps pouring in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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