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Title: Maps of the blue and red states
Post by: daddog on November 05, 2008, 05:07:02 PM: A fellow teacher sent me this link today of some geopolitical maps. Rather interesting. I will be sharing it with my students tomorrow.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/
Title: Re: Maps of the blue and red states
Post by: RATTFINK on November 05, 2008, 05:11:17 PM: cool
Title: Re: Maps of the blue and red states
Post by: skernsk on November 05, 2008, 05:22:00 PM: I move to have daddog banned from this board. This is a violation of rule number 11, paragraph 6 subsection B which reads...

'thou shalt not post political crap here'

No soup for you!!!
:devil
Title: Re: Maps of the blue and red states
Post by: Maverick on November 05, 2008, 05:46:13 PM: The cartograms were interesting. It certainly shows how the main population density states will control elections. I'd imagine some time it will come down to about 7 to 10 states. The candidate that gets the magic 7 to 10 will win the election based on population density. The lesser populated states will be all but disenfranchised.

Oh and IN
Title: Re: Maps of the blue and red states
Post by: Tango on November 05, 2008, 06:44:35 PM: Wonder how it would turn out if they split all the electorial votes by percentage of votes in each state? No more winner takes all. I know theres a couple of states that do that, isn't there?
Title: Re: Maps of the blue and red states
Post by: Cypher on November 05, 2008, 06:55:58 PM: Quote from: Tango on November 05, 2008, 06:44:35 PM
Wonder how it would turn out if they split all the electorial votes by percentage of votes in each state? No more winner takes all. I know theres a couple of states that do that, isn't there?

Yeah. iirc they make it so the areas that determine each individual elctorial vote will have taht vote go for who one that area.
Title: Re: Maps of the blue and red states
Post by: SIK1 on November 05, 2008, 08:11:01 PM: I wonder how it would turn out if they just did away with the electoral college all together. :O

Very INteresting.
Title: Re: Maps of the blue and red states
Post by: Motherland on November 05, 2008, 08:20:36 PM: Quote from: SIK1 on November 05, 2008, 08:11:01 PM
I wonder how it would turn out if they just did away with the electoral college all together. :O

Very INteresting.
Well, Al Gore would have been president 8 years ago.

Cool Maps! :aok
Title: Re: Maps of the blue and red states
Post by: MotleyCH on November 05, 2008, 08:23:56 PM: Quote from: SIK1 on November 05, 2008, 08:11:01 PM
I wonder how it would turn out if they just did away with the electoral college all together. :O

Very INteresting.

Wouldn't have mattered this election, Obama still had 52-54% of the vote.
But Electoral College should be done away with, IMO.

A better map can be found here.
http://news.yahoo.com/election/2008/dashboard
Title: Re: Maps of the blue and red states
Post by: Maverick on November 05, 2008, 09:14:03 PM: I like a situation where you have to carry a majority of states to win, not just the ones with the highest population centers.