NY Times Decision Tree-If Your County has this- Your County voted Hillary.

[Ichingcarpenter]

[Kittycat]

1. Very interstesting Analysis

Really says quite a bit about the politically informed/uninformed.

[Ichingcarpenter]

I found it revealing that she won the counties that overwhelmingly voted

BUSH

[scheming daemons]

4. Exactly... the bottom picture is the most damning......

In counties that Bush beat Kerry by more than 16%, Hillary wins.


Hillary owns "Bush Country".



Makes sense, tho.... she's just like him.

[Liberal Gramma]

18. Crossover votes

courtesy of Rush Limbaugh

[mrreowwr_kittty]

20. Not as many as you'd think

Most of them are probably DINOs. So called Reagan Democrats who usually vote Repug in the general.

[City Lights]

14. Yup. That little gem stands out like a sore thumb.

Interesting. Very interesting.

[invictus]

25. Hillary is a Republican in the mold of John McCain. Her talk of "obliteration," her constant praise

of McCain, and her dirty, right-wing attacks on Obama make that very clear.

[scheming daemons]

2. The OP's images didn't work for me.... here's links if you have the same problem...

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/04/16/us/20080416_OBAMA_GRAPHIC.html

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. Anyone else have problems? I can see it and so could the other person

that commented on the thread.

[scheming daemons]

6. The pictures show up as broken links for me.... might be my firewall....

[tishaLA]

3. That's a really interesting chart

[crankychatter]

7. This is like a creepily accurate horoscope or fortune cookie

looks well researched

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. The chart includes Texas also

[Barack_America]

9. "Where is the county: Northeast or South versus West or Midwest"

The Northeast and South lumped into the same category because of their propensity towards racism.

Classic.

That ought to knock down the Northeast elitists down a peg. :rofl:

But seriously, I hope the Dem powers that be have a look at this. Essentially the question they're trying to get at here is, "just how racist is your county?". Is that a question the Democratic party really wants to entertain? I would hope not. It's time to take a stand here.

[Zachstar]

10. Now that is a great analysis! Makes things QUITE clear.

[lumberjack_jeff]

21. Absolutely right. Hillary IS the candidate of the working person. n/t

[tinrobot]

24. And poor dumb Republicans.

[lumberjack_jeff]

27. Sorry, no habla elitist.

Funny, it was just a few months ago that Obama supporters were bragging about bringing in supporters who used to be Republicans.


I guess that's only good if they're not poor.

[olkaz]

11. I swear to god I hope we never have to hear from Nash McCabe again.

Seriously. Media. Stop talking to her.

It's sad.

[Ichingcarpenter]

12. I do.......... I would like to know who she voted for

and if she voted....

[olkaz]

19. well, there is that

That's a pretty handy yardstick for the general, I suppose.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

15. I hope she finds a job at a flag-pin factory.

Of course, she might end up in China.

[olkaz]

29. Now that would be sad.

But she'd be in heaven with all those flag pins everywhere.

I'm being mean. I honestly feel bad for her. Her life sucks and she got used by the media. I'll shut up now.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

31. I don't feel sorry for her.

If a goddamn flag pin is more important to her than anything else, she has major problems.

[oviedodem]

13. Notice she wins the Rural Repulicans: hint hint

[Ichingcarpenter]

16. She won Republican Counties in Texas where not one voter

voted for the Republican Candidate that was on the ballot.
In other words..... they didn't even bother to vote in the republican primary.

Thom Hartman counted 8 counties where that happened.

[terrell9584]

23. because in these counties

local offices are controlled by the Democratic party and local offices were on the ballot, so anyone voting a Republican ballot threw away their vote.

That is the way it is in most rural counties in the South, no one votes in Republican primaries. Huckabee only won Alabama because there is no party registration, rather, same day declaration, and many rural Baptists, who normally vote in Democratic primaries because they have to vote for Sheriff, legislature, etal, crossed over, declared Republican for the first time in their lives, and voted for Baptist preacher Huckabee.

In converse, in the states higher population counties, many white Democrats will declare as Republicans on primary day just because if they don't, they forfeit their vote for Sheriff, legislature, etc.

There is no two party system in the South, just competing one party systems

[underpants]

17. Very interesting- looks to me (at the beginning) she wins traditional Dem counties

Very interesting

[quantass]

22. k

[frazzled]

26. You know, I hate to be elitist

But in my heart of hearts, I suppose I really am.

Over the years I have fought hard for working people, for the poor, have defended the wisdom of plumbers over university professors. But I am going to admit something this election cycle: I am tired of uneducated, lower income, socially conservative white people having the final say in how our government is run.

Oddly, I just watched the DVD of the movie "Gone Baby Gone" last night--and there is a large moral dilemma at the end of that film (Spoiler Alert: read no further if you want to see the film): should the uneducated, fuck-up, horrible mother get to keep her kid or should the kindly educated black guy get to? Yes, she should ... but you know it's going to turn out badly. I feel the same way about the nation: should these conservative uneducated white folk get to have the say on who runs our country? Sure, their vote is as good as anyone else's ...but you know it's going to turn out badly.

[bigtree]

28. shows Hillary Clinton has general election strength.

for those who are honest enough to admit it.

And you tell me, genius, what is it that these candidates have communicated that you think a college educated voter understands better than the rest?

[wileedog]

30. Which demo do you think the 11% of people who still think

Obama is a Muslim come from?