The Final Map - Just Wow

[kpete]

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[world wide wally]

1. A little more blue please

[dchill]

3. +1,000,000!

[StarfishSaver]

6. A lot of that red is just dirt

[shelshaw]

9. Martian soil

[mountain grammy]

14. Yep..

[Hassin Bin Sober]

25. Yep. And cows. I think in 2016 Clinton counties were responsible for 67% of GDP.

[IronLionZion]

60. But now we got some more of that dirt to turn blue!

Who would have thought Arizona and Georgia would go blue. Let's take Texas next

[wnylib]

65. Georgia red clay no longer red.

[IronLionZion]

67. The Crimson Tide stops at the Bama/Georgia border nt

[JDC]

39. Agreed

[bdamomma]

2. It's

official. Now leave tRump.

[BComplex]

4. We've got 'em surrounded!

[SammyWinstonJack]

15. And they're circling the wagons. Showdown.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

23. Let's smoke 'em out.

[Bok_Tukalo]

5. Maine and Nebraska tell the political story of this nation.

[genxlib]

8. If every state divided up their EVs proportionally

The idiotic skew in the Electoral College would essentially go away. Not completely but it would normalize towards the popular vote to make it almost impossible to get the kind of upside down results we have had recently.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

24. Would it?

Wouldn’t that incentivize gerrymandering? Which repigs seem to be better at. Also don’t we still get screwed with population concentration?

I’m genuinely curious. I don’t know.

[genxlib]

54. If they were broken up by congressional district

Then yes, gerrymandering would still be an issue. I was talking about a straight breakdown of the EVs by the proportion of the popular vote in the state

The skew would go way down

[treestar]

30. I wonder could it be done without constitutional amendment

to change the number of EVs per state to just be their number of house representatives and subtract the two for the Senate. Then it would at least be proportional to population. Wyoming would only get 1 and CA would get 53 so citizens' votes in the two states would be of equal weight per electoral vote.

There's another idea I read today: or add 50 EVs that just go to the PV winner.

[drmeow]

66. Alternatively

increase the electors to 1000, distributed by population - no amendment needed. Also, increase the size of the house of representatives.

[IronLionZion]

61. Ironically, Romney would have won in 2012 using that model

here's an analysis of the last 5 elections using that model

https://electoralvotemap.com/what-if-all-states-split-their-electoral-votes-like-maine-and-nebraska/

[Progressive Jones]

7. Still too much of that irritating, red rash. nt

[AllaN01Bear]

10. making me cry all over again.

[Butterflylady]

11. My condolences to those of you, DUers, that live in red states

I know you all did the best you can. Unfortunately there is no cure for stupidity.

[soothsayer]

12. Much prefer this version (tho not final)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214545949

[SleeplessinSoCal]

13. I'd like to see a map of federal revenue paid by state.

That would be more reflective of the intention of the EC.

[SCantiGOP]

62. I heard on a MSNBC panel the other day

that the Trump states generated 29% of the GNP.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

68. if everyone saw the that, it'd be clear blue states keep the US afloat.

But the MSM are keeping that nugget under their collective hats.

[pazzyanne]

16. 25 states for tRump is a long way from 45.

A trumper at a PA rally predicted Dump would win 47 states when interviewed by Jordan Klepper.

[bluecollar2]

17. So if you're Biden....

Where do you focus next?

For me its easy...

North and South Dakota and Oklahoma....

Native Americans have been screwed for too long...

Native Americans delivered Arizona. It's time to recognize that....and get on with actually representing America.

[LiberalArkie]

19. How about we started honoring the treaties?

[treestar]

31. We know this?

Where has that been polled?

[JI7]

34. Too many right wing whites. There are enough liberal whites in the other places

to help win along with huge minority turnout.

[Hip2bSquare]

18. Just WOW is right!

What an amazing sight to see! Arizona is BLUE! 3 out of the 4 corner states!

Georgia is BLUE! Ms. Stacey Abrams...I'm going to stand back and stand by! Whatever you need. I'm here to keep pushing!

[warmfeet]

20. Keep it coming.

We have much more in the tank.

[mercuryblues]

21. Maine has 4 electoral votes

1 for each of its 2 congressional district and 2 for the popular vote winner.

Biden won 3 and trump won 1

Nebraska has 5 electoral votes

1 for each of its 3 congressional district and 2 for the popular vote winners

Biden won 1 and trump won 4

I know it doesn't change the results, but this is a national news network and they should know better.

[Takket]

26. not sure what you mean? Those states are shown cross hatched and the CD EVs are on the right side of

the map.

[mercuryblues]

48. correct, but they are missing the popular votes EVs

They key is not right. Which resulted in me reading it differently.

[BusyBeingBest]

22. I'm feeling a shift today, towards acceptance that Donnie lost.

Final states called, people are moving on.

[Amishman]

27. Not as good as we wanted or expected

But good enough

[Squinch]

28. They say that Covid has people leaving cities and moving to more rural areas. I wonder if that

will flip some more states to blue?

[quakerboy]

29. Next time

Lets take back NC.

And lets take every cent we nationally focus on Florida and put it all into Texas.

[BComplex]

58. Amen! It's time to get NC to turn blue.

[Cryptoad]

32. Dumbfuckistan has shrunk,,,,,,

[Skittles]

50. it is still sickening how many Americans voted for that POS Trump

[Brainfodder]

63. 35% brainwashed and +12% married to them and thus brainwashed?

Meanwhile, they think the same of us and worse.

Someone is wrong and we aint it, but their side is nastier.

They got them believing we kill babies for pleasure and other nonsense.



I called my old man yesterday, 80-something Republican and he gave me the unsure who won the election BS.

[bucolic_frolic]

33. It was a masterful strategy, in a pandemic, with multiple backups

And as it turned out IA FL NC TX didn't fall into place, but only 2 of those were in the hunt by late summer anyway.

But we have work to do as the country has problems. We had to do all this work to beat Fat Hitler, and his MAGA zombies still believe.

The pandemic will slow us down severely, the economy is subpar, Congress is gridlocked, and we're stuck with the EC, no DC PR and a cavalry.

We have about 18 months to build a case for 2022. Tell me how we claw forward from this beachhead.

[Tribetime]

35. Im hoping we can keep this map plus

Texas and North Carolina....and maybe Florida.........I've given up on my own state Ohio

[PinkTiger]

52. Missouri here

And we used to be Blue. I was the Democratic central committee chair in the 1980s and we had a special dinner to honor James Kirkpatrick, the outgoing Secretary of State. Every Democratic state office holder came, and we had 300 people who bought tickets. And this was in McDonald County, in the SW corner of the state.

[Tribetime]

55. You almost voted Obama 08 right?

[griffi94]

36. Here's a more accurate map.

https://www.core77.com/posts/90771/A-Great-Example-of-Better-Data-Visualization-This-Voting-Map-GI

[Blue_true]

40. Meaningless. Trees, soybeans, wheat, corn, cows, hogs, chickens don't vote, people do.

The places that have the most people won the election for Joe, doesn’t matter how tightly packed they are.

[Catherine Vincent]

42. I agree. Land doesn't vote.

I need to find the most accurate map. It has white in the areas that is land.

[JudyM]

64. Scroll down in that link -- it's there.

[intheflow]

43. I think this data map is from the 2016 election.

I would love to see it with 2020 numbers. More blue!!!

[Wednesdays]

56. Um...

[klook]

57. + 5,349,965 and counting. (nt)

[crickets]

69. That second map is genius. I can't wait to see the 2020 version. nt

[sinkingfeeling]

37. It's a landslide and the biggest electoral blowout in history....

to quote MF45 in 2016.

[Blue_true]

38. That the race was as close as it was truly says a lot of bad things about the

people that voted for Trump. What in the world did they see in him that said “Leader”? As best, he was an arrogant, incompetent fool.

[Roc2020]

41. That blue looks slowly creeping around the coasts

to suffocate the red

[colorado_ufo]

44. I love that the new West Blue Wall looks like a mighty arm

with a large bicep - and Colorado is the fist!

[BobTheSubgenius]

45. It's not the map we would all like, but...

...it's a damned sight better than it has been.

[Bleacher Creature]

46. I want that whole East Coast.

It may be a while, though, for South Carolina.

[Kablooie]

47. The next Trump move will be to try and get 36 electors to flip.

If 36 that are pledged to Biden decide to vote Trump instead, the election is thrown to the house where each state gets one vote.

Technically possible but in reality nearly impossible but I'll bet it will be Trump's number one project now.

[catbyte]

49. It's so sad that we in the East & Great Lakes are separated by our brothers and sisters in the West

& Southwest by Dumbfuckistan.

[Poiuyt]

51. Looks like a landslide to me!

[question everything]

53. Nice to see the West Coast "encroaching east"

If IA and NE will join - yes, hurdle too high - will have a real bridge across America.

[BobTheSubgenius]

59. This map has looked way worse in the past.

Even the very recent past. This is something to be proud of, and grow from.