for those of you who might have forgotten, the red ones were won by bush. i would still recommend following the link, cause there's some other cool stuff on the site.
now that the election is over, and kerry gave up peacefully (which is more than i can say for some people... *cough* forrest *cough*), i don't feel the same urge to harsh on or preach against the liberal left (a.k.a. most democrats), so the quantity and tone of the quotes i post will probably change. since i'm reading through "dune" again, here's a fun quote... it may be a bit off, since i'm doing it from memory:
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." --Bene Gesserit litany against fear
hey forrest... we're not a democracy. we've never been a democracy. considering how many people voted for algore and kerry, i hope we never will be a democracy.
ReplyDeleteand i wasn't implying that land mass was the important part... it's just nice to see all that red on the map.
As much as I usually decline from engaging too much in political discussions, I can't help wanting to make a comment here. To point out that King County tends to decide the electoral votes for the state of Washington is absolutely true. Not that it's necessarily fair that way, but that's the way it works. Big cities have more people, yes, and thus tend to have more influence in this sort of thing. However, I would like to point out that Only 2 counties in WA(I will stick with WA, since I know that best), voted more than 60-40 for Kerry (p.s., Spokane is the 2nd largest city in the state and voted 55-44% for Bush), and even King county topped that chart off at 65%. Notice that most of the states on your map are some sort of purple, and very few are close to being even red, let alone blue?
ReplyDeleteNeither of your maps is irrelevant, nor does either map show the complete truth. Both use generalizations: the key lies in looking at as much info as you can and making use of all of it, not in excluding information just because you're seeing red. If you really want a clearer picture about what happened in this election, I suggest you go to cnn.com and look at the percentages: it's there, not in pictures, where you might find some genuine results.
And, Forrest, as for those "people" you're talking about, Bush won the popular vote this time by a pretty decent margin, so I have to believe that the "people" have had their say. Regardless of your views, it's settled for the next term, and it's time to get back to living, rather than just being pissed off all the time. For all the insults of intelligence, and the pleas for conscious decision making, I would have to say that the knife cuts both ways.
3.5 million is a lot of peole, forrest. alone, though, you're right, that still wouldn't make it a mandate. but taken along with the republican gains in both house and senate, it looks more and more like it is a mandate.
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