Posted on 11/03/2004 9:02:54 AM PST by Crush T Velour
Click on individual states to see a county by county breakdown of reds and blues.
BTW: How is Pennsyvania a BLUE state? http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/PA/P/00/index.html
I know, I know, those red counties don't have near the population of Philadelphia, but still!
P.S. How did the Democrats get "blue" as their color. I distinctly remember Reagan's color was blue in 1980 ("The map looks like a swimming pool")
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The incumbent party should be in blue... the GOP should have had blue this year. It comes from military conventions... friendlies blue, hostiles red. But the herd mentality of the MSM couldn't figure it out.
Commie Democrats complained about being reds.
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Up until this year, blue was for the incumbent party and red was for the challenger. But after 2000, with all the emphasis on Red American and Blue America, I think everyone kind of decided that making the Democrats red would have been confusing.
Red is the color of courage and the blood of patriots.
I like the red....:)
Originally the colors were supposed to swap every Presidential election cycle. Since the 2000 election and the association of red states with the Republicans, I guess they decided to stick with red for Republicans and blue for Democrats so as not to confuse anyone.
Here is a link for the country as a whole. Makes you wonder how it can be so close.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2004/countymap.htm
USA Today published a map 4 years ago like that.
Agreed. And besides, making the Democrats into Reds would have exposed them as Communists, and that just wouldn't be right! ;)
What's up withe the 11% Republicans who voted for Kerry???
That's 500,000 votes - President Bush should have won that state.
Last week I posted an article about California being split East-West instead of North-South. The CNN map sure confirms it.
The map was great. I was glued to it last night. Watching also gave one the ability to see the it was really over by 11:00 PM.
The side of the state toward Democratic Illinois trended Democratic. The side of the state toward Republican Nebraska, trended Republican.
Philadelphia is a county with huge population, and they went 82% to Kerry. 517,000 votes. I haven't seen yet what their turnout was. In my rural PA precinct, our turnout was 82%, with the 51-49 Bush the country had.
Me too. Let's keep red.
Let the dems have the 'blues'.
"How did the Democrats get "blue" as their color."
They do not want to admit that they are commie red. It is a useful fiction for the MSM.
Still shows Ohio as "too close to call". I wonder if 115% of the precincts in would make CNN call the state.
It looks like one stinking county destroyed our entire states' effort.
Blue at the extremities. We need to take care, lest this country get frostbite.
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