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WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH MINNESOTA?
Powerline Blog | November 6, 2014 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 11/06/2014 11:07:15 AM PST by right-wing agnostic

This map, which originated with National Journal, has been making the rounds on Twitter. It it similar to the one that was popular a few years ago that showed the United States as red or blue, by county. But this map shows the Congressional districts based on the just-completed election:

In a sense, maps like this one are misleading because the small blue areas are basically the cities, where lots of people live. But what this map does reveal is that the Democrats are no longer competitive in rural and small-town America. It is now rare for a district dominated by small towns not to be Republican.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 2014elections; minnesota
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To: ConservativeMan55

Yeah, by 3,761 votes. 0.18%!


41 posted on 11/06/2014 12:11:30 PM PST by LT Brass Bancroft
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To: smoothsailing

That big blue amoeba in south Carolina is democrat James Clyburn’s gerrymandered plantation. He’s the only democrat in congress from South Carolina.


42 posted on 11/06/2014 12:11:51 PM PST by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: Cecily
ROFL !!!! No thanks...
43 posted on 11/06/2014 12:16:23 PM PST by coder2
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To: smokingfrog

“Lutherans”

Best analysis I’ve seen so far. Affable idiots.

Vermont is solid blue. What’s up with Arizona? It’s more blue than red.


44 posted on 11/06/2014 12:22:00 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: right-wing agnostic

There is something wrong with the majority of people in a state that elects a clown such as Franken and keep bringing in Somalis, scores of whom are into child porn and Jihad.


45 posted on 11/06/2014 12:25:37 PM PST by Jane Austen (Boycott the Philadelphia Eagles!)
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To: entropy12

Well, there is no love lost between the two countries especially after what the Swedes did to them in WWII. They are extremely competitive with one another, but in the end they are essentially the same genetic pool along with Denmark.


46 posted on 11/06/2014 12:25:50 PM PST by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: ifinnegan

I thought it stood for Dumb F-word Liberals. ;)


47 posted on 11/06/2014 12:27:38 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: ifinnegan

I thought it stood for Dumb F-word Liberals. ;)


48 posted on 11/06/2014 12:27:38 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Menehune56; ConservativeMan55; right-wing agnostic

That is not the correct 1984 map for Reagan’s win.

The “Redstate.com” and other “South Will Rise Again” (RED on Civil War maps, representing the South {and Democrats, too}) politicos ... have continued to push the RED meme.

BLUE is the color for Reagan Republicans and states and counties won - in 1980 and in 1984.

Some years after, the TV network news swapped the colors, in order to confuse west coast voters: The abundance of BLUE at a glance of the TV, had west coast voters thinking that Republicans were winning - so no need to rush from work to the polls before going home.

Again, BLUE is for REAGAN, and RED is for COMMUNISTS/LEFTISTS/SOCIALISTS.


49 posted on 11/06/2014 12:49:10 PM PST by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
what is it about the proximity to water that apparently makes normal people turn into bat shit crazy commies?

I think it may have to do with the Longshoremen's unions.

50 posted on 11/06/2014 3:40:58 PM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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