(HOT, HOT GRAPHIC!!) 3D county map of electoral results says it all

[scottxyz]

Can we stop talking about Bush's "mandate" now?



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[PatsFan2004]

1. Great map!!! Much better than those flat USA maps.

[scottxyz]

2. I guess "reality" is three-dimensional

Who'da thunk??

[robbedvoter]

3. Is this population or results?

Either one ehelps, but I need to know

[scottxyz]

4. Good question

First, I thought it was results.

But that wouldn't make any sense.

For example, take a big city like NYC which is a big blue column. There must have been SOME people in NYC who voted for Bush - but NYC's column is entirely blue.

So I guess this means the COUNTY (eg, NYC) went for Kerry - and the COUNTY's population, or # of registered voters (but NOT its Kerry-voters), is such-and-such.

[Divine Discontent]

6. neato!

big cities shouldn't be told what to do by small towns with 100-10,000 people, I'm sorry, it's almost like there should be two governments, one for them and one for others......

and I'm not talking about them being more "moral" in small towns, very moral people live in big cities too! it's just a small town mindset, of fear, and the status quo, that kept this scmuck in. Very small effects came from mary cheney, and govt. test (maybe 1% guess), but the biggest loss was from their fear of "everything" from gay marriage to osama's terra-ism.

[lizzieforkerry]

9. I live in a very small town in a red state and I worked

my *ss off for Kerry. But I see your point.

[newyawker99]

11. NYC = 5 counties so it would be the total of the 5 counties.

[scottxyz]

5. More info here from the people who made this map

http://www.esri.com/industries/elections/business/uspres_election2004.html

Hope this helps.

[goclark]

7. I love this graphic, question...

Is this map pre-fraud/"mandate" or after FRAUD and MANDATE have been uncovered?

I wonder what it would look like under a variety of scenerios after Florida and Ohio have been deemed to be stolen.

[scottxyz]

8. I think you'd see a lot more BLUE in FL and OH...

...if it hadn't been for the alleged fraud.

[goclark]

10. And in other states too or just FL. and OH

[MyUncle]

12. I don't quite get the towers in this.

For example, I know San Diego went for Bush, and it is the 6th or 7th largest city in the US. Also Orange County went for Bush by a huge margin and I think 2,000,000 plus people live there.

Any help with this before I start sending it around?

[FlaGranny]

13. It is a bar graph -

the higher the tower the more votes (I assume). What this map shows is that every place that went for Bush is like what Randi says - the desert - no people live there. All the densely poplulated areas are Democratic. All the sparsely populated ones are Republican.

[MyUncle]

15. I do not think it is a straight bar graph on number of votes.

OC and San Diego would go a lot higher there are more people there for example than in the City of San Fransisco

[CraZdem4life]

16. desert :-)

"the desert - no people live there."

then i shall move there! the place where every/the vote counts :-)

[Oak2004]

14. Notice also that not all blue is in urban areas

I've lived in pretty blue places for most of my adult life, and most of my adult life I've been living in small towns. Vermont, my current home, is simultaneously the most rural state in America and the only state, to my knowledge, that routinely elects self-identified socialists to office.

[dmac]

17. That's incredible!