Posted on 11/07/2004 8:26:26 AM PST by finnman69
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Houston looks pretty red to me, although I don't understand why it appears so short in comparison to much smaller cities like Pittsburgh.
Was this map broadcast on CBS?
I am interested for copyright permission reasons...
Bush won by more in Houston than Kerry did in Pittsburgh, so that ain't it. And it isn't really proportional margin, or you'd see gigantic cities all over the map.
Neat
Washtenaw(Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti) and Wayne(Detroit) Counties are in the way....
Michigan's map is wrong. Manistee went to Bush. Oakland went to Kerry.
Election Returns for CAMERON COUNTY TEXAS
11/5/2004 5:02:06 PM
RACE NAME PARTY EARLY VOTES PERCENT TOTAL VOTES PERCENT
President/Vice-President
George W. Bush/ Dick Cheney REP 19,620 56.31% 34,689 50.37%
John F. Kerry/ John Edwards DEM 15,104 43.34% 33,887 49.21%
Because, in Chicago, you can still vote after you die...
There are a lot of us suburbanites that also regularly get out-voted by those in Minneapolis/St. Paul. Anoka is starting to look a little better, a lot of precintcs there (6 of 8 I believe) went to Bush/Cheney...
If the Democrats were smart, they'd be the ones demanding that roads, agriculture policy, etc be moved back to the state and local levels.
Oh, they're smart as whips - just listen to them! lol
I have a hard time with this. Detroit subsidizes the rest of Michigan? NYC subsidizes the rest of New York? These are the areas always demanding more bail outs. Chicago wants to raise sales tax to 9%.
I am talking blue zone to red zone, not states here.
Yep. That's a natural result of the progressive income tax -- the rich (disproportionately city dwellers) pay more.
Cities like Chicago, New York and Houston are the economic engines of the nation. Cities are what defined civilization. Without cities the economy collapses and the culture disappears. The idea that cities are subsidized from elsewhere is ludicrous. Tell me that when you compare the into traffic with the out from traffic each rush hour on the Chicago expressways.
RATS control them politically because historically that party was the one which catered to the poor and powerless and garnered their loyalty buying their votes cheap. Without poverty it could not exist which is why it attacks any plan to move the voters to prosperity and bases its ideology on hatred for the rich and class envy.
You are buying into a myth. Cities are the economic engines of the economy and don't "soak up" resources from other taxpayers they provide resources.
Federal revenues go from the high income states (mainly blue) like NY, Il, MI, PN, NJ, Conn, Mass etc TO lower income states (mainly red.) The same is true within states regarding state revenues.
You are planning to fight the wrong battle.
Well, it looks like less-populated rural areas are mostly Republican and more-populated urban areas are mostly Democratic.
Yep.
And?
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