I see more Red every time we do this.

[JBA]

Looks like thing are only getting worst.
55 Senate seats, Dem leader Daschle is out.
House gains seats.
First time in something like 60 years since this happened.
Bush got more votes (51%) then Clinton ever got in two tries.

And the map becomes more and more red each time we do this.

I don't see the DIVIDED country that the left likes to talk about, where's the two americas?
2000





2004

[Edbert1]

Originally posted by JBA
I don't see the DIVIDED country that the left likes to talk about, where's the two americas?

America 1 = Urban/Metropolitan
America 2 = Suburban/ Rural  

A few exceptions of course (like south Texas) but overall that is glaringly obvious to me.

[Charon]

That map would be really powerful if a lot of those red areas didn't have more livestock or prarie dogs per square mile than people. The popular vote totals were:

Bush:  59,017,382
Kerry: 55,435,808    

A clear win for Bush but hardly a landslide, especially considering he is a war president and the dismal candidate chosen to run against him.

Charon

[Ripsnort]

Edit. You've added 2004 map, never mind.

[slimm50]

Looks like you were drunk when you looked at the second map. Spalsh some cold water on yer face and try again.

[slimm50]

Originally posted by Charon
That map would be really powerful if a lot of those red areas didn't have more livestock or prarie dogs per square mile than people. The popular vote totals were:

Bush:  59,017,382
Kerry: 55,435,808    

A clear win for Bush but hardly a landslide, especially considering he is a war president and the dismal candidate chosen to run against him.

Charon

But he didn'y run just against Kerry. He had to battle all the main-stream media (including print and tv, here and abroad).

[AKIron]

After looking at those maps a little it's become clear to me that there is a liberal mind control conspiracy afoot. Notice how there are concentrations of Democrats along coasts and rivers. They're putting something in the water I tell ya.  

[Saintaw]

Originally posted by Edbert
America 1 = Urban/Metropolitan
America 2 = Suburban/ Rural  
 

Would that mean that the pple who decided who would run the show are in fact ... culchies?

LOL LOL LOL (to paraphrase)

[FUNKED1]

Jesse Jackson said something intelligent the other night.  The DNC needs to become a 50 state party to have a chance.  They can't get by just courting a narrow demographic.  There's more to America than the big cities.  

They talk about "getting our message out".  They got their message out, loud and clear.  It's just that most of America rejects it.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by FUNKED1

They talk about "getting our message out".  They got their message out, loud and clear.  It's just that most of America rejects it.

Not "most", but a majority.

[Wotan]

What's the point of this thread? You get distracted by shiny things as well? We don't select our President based on acreage. Not every one living in those red areas voted Bush, not everyone that lives in blue areas voted Kerry.

All that red isn’t really red nor is all that blue really blue. Some of those areas were real close and could have swung either way.

The fact is the Democrats are for the most part an urban party. It stands to reason that that their base would be concentrated in urban and high population density areas.

[Toad]

Originally posted by Charon
Bush:  59,017,382
Kerry: 55,435,808    

A clear win for Bush but hardly a landslide, especially considering he is a war president and the dismal candidate chosen to run against him.

Charon

Bush will be helped by the Republicans' increased strength in Congress. With a few contests still undecided, the party boosted its Senate seats to 55 from 51, defeating even the Senate's highest-ranking Democrat, Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota. Republicans gained three seats in the House, to 230.



Bush is the first presidential candidate to receive more than 50 percent of the popular vote since his father, George H.W. Bush, did so in 1988.

While I'm often depicted as the quintessential Republican here, it's simply not so.; I voted Libertarian this time.

Nonetheless, this has to be seen as a huge win for the Republicans in general and a huge loss for the Democrats.

Saw Carville on CNN; I don't like the guy but I do think he's pretty astute as a political analyst. His comment was something like "we had an unpopular President, a poor economy, an unpopular war, for the first time we had almost as much money as the Republicans for ads, we had a good health care issue and we not only lost, we got badly beaten. If we couldn't win this one, it's time for some serious reflection on what we're doing wrong."

That's a paraphrase, not a quote but that's the gist of it.

I hope they do reflect. The Dems could have had my vote this year with a moderate Democrat. I could have gone even for Lieberman or Gephardt. Instead, my choice is the most liberal Senator in the land... or close to it, let's not quibble.

Clearly, it takes more than winning all the debates.

[JB73]

Originally posted by Charon
That map would be really powerful if a lot of those red areas didn't have more livestock or prarie dogs per square mile than people. The popular vote totals were:

so only people who like to live in big, crime ridden, dirty, metropolis are the ones that count for what direction our country should be headed?

[AKS\/\/ulfe]

Originally posted by JB73
so only people who like to live in big, crime ridden, dirty, metropolis are the ones that count for what direction our country should be headed?

Yes, backwater hicks ain't no good for nothin' but makin turtle soup and skinning skunks.
-SW

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by JB73
so only people who like to live in big, crime ridden, dirty, metropolis are the ones that count for what direction our country should be headed?

 Maybe they want us all to be metrosexuals?