Something To Make Us Feel A Little Better
A US Map of Red and Blue at the County Level. While it is difficult to see the borders - You can tell major metropolitan areas in Red States - Marion County for example, and the swath of blue that runs along the industrialized south lakeshore of the Great Lakes from roughly Buffalo to Detroit, along I-94 to Benton Harbor and along the south lakeshore of Lake Michigan to Chicago. Large swaths of rural areas are still quite Republican, however the turnout wasn’t enough to counteract the more liberal metropolitan areas.
BTW, look at that blue tip of Southern Texas. Isn’t that Congressman Ron Paul’s home district?
November 9th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
If I’m not mistaken, that big blue area in the Four Corners region is primarily made up of Indian reservations.
What a shock they’d vote Democrat.
November 9th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
That map is misleading. Not a lot of people live in that red area. Most people live in the city and suburbia.
Sorry guys. The election was what it was.
November 9th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Michael - Ron’s district is North of the blue area. Galveston is an area in his district for example. Isn’t it great to see him on television so much more often now that the media has picked up how correct he has been on economic matters?
And although Abdul points out the population disparity between the major metro areas and the rural areas, which I don’t think was ignored in Michael’s comments, the truth still holds that for some reason our dense population centers always seem to be in favor or more government and higher taxes whereas the people living out the rural areas, who largely just want government to leave them alone I would bet, seem to be subject to “the tyranny of the masses”.
November 9th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Yes, the election was what it was, but what was that?
The good news for Republicans is that it was NOT largely an election over ideas. This was largely an election on personality. Obama ran on thin gruel of “Hope and Change” and McCain was running on the thinner “I’m not Obama.”
November 9th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
That’s still a lot more blue than there was in 2004.
November 9th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Abdul - I’m not disagreeing with you on it. All the major metropolitan population centers - New York, LA, and over half of Illinois - even traditionally Red downstate Illinois - all went blue. Eastern Seaboard from DC to Baltimore all the way up to Maine is blue.
Many of those blue flecks are blue spots (for example Marion County, and Hamilton County Ohio) in seas of red, others are because the base didn’t turn out for a moderate John McCain and couldn’t hold their nose to vote for a moderate like McCain even with Sarah Palin on the ticket.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Way too much blue on that map. My home county went blue (as it did in ‘04) but too many other counties switched this year.