Posted on 11/11/2008 4:38:45 PM PST by savvyguy
Unfortunately, cows, cornstalks and cactus don't vote.
This bothers me.
The Left has always chosen the color red going back to Soviet days.
As we speak conservatism has allowed itself to be branded with the same color. The polarization is similar the the 1917 Russian revolution: the empire collapsed. The two major factions were the Bosheviks and the Mesheviks. In Russian bolshoi means big and menshei mean smaller.
We have allowed the left to define the isue again.
I need to get out of this Bolshevik Red state/city too.
Red covers a lot more land but is inhabited by many fewer people, and as difficult as it may be for us conservatives to believe I think it will only get worse.
We may still be a center right nation but the pendulum is definitely swinging TO THE LEFT!!
> It’s too bad the electoral votes are not split in each state. The election would have been much closer.
Closer, but would not have affected the outcome since the popular vote was undeniably for the 0baMessiah.
That has got to change.
The blue looks like a cancer spreading across the country.
Interesting that you should point out Oklahoma; Rush was speaking about this just this afternoon. He said he wondered a few things about Oklahoma......do they allow early voting, can you register and vote the same day, do you need to show ID to vote, etc. etc.
Turns out.......he and/or his staff did a little homework and found that yes, they do allow early voting......but the Friday before the election, NOT 30+ days prior. You can not register when you are within 24 days.....not hours, days....of the election. Also, you must show your voter ID to actually vote.
His larger point was well made and well taken; the electoral process in much of this country is totally, completely compromised. That is precisely how Obama managed to get elected....and probably how Al Franken (for example) is going to steal the Senate race in MN in broad daylight, under public scrutiny.
No one in authority gives a damn any more. We’ve become a Third World country to a large degree, and it sickens me.
We won more counties! We won more square miles! We won more counties! We won more square miles! We won more counties! We won more square miles!
How can I make it my background too? Good idea? Please show me steps, if not too much trouble
Here’s the problem: First, that map is bluer than it was in 2004. Second, we will never win with only rural and small town support: that map only shows that geography doesn’t equal population. There are other maps which depict a truer picture. Third, we won’t regain the ground we’ve lost by ranting about socialism (Bush’s top marginal rate is 35%; Obama’s is 39.6%. Raising the rate is a bad idea, but what’s the tipping point into socialism: 36%? 37%? It’s a meaningless distinction), but by remembering to be conservative. Republicans deserved to lose this election. I’m tired of having to choose between slow gov’t growth and rapid gov’t growth.
I couldn't say the same for NV. Clark County is nothing more than California east.
The libertarian west is slowly but surely going blue because of retiring flower children from CA.
According to Rush one of things about Oaklahoma is that the voting laws there haven't changed much in the last 20 making it pretty hard to cheat there.
I thought that might be news to some of you...
Maybe I should move to you. LOL
The problem is that most urban centers go Dim. What the Repubs need to do is to send conservative missionaries into the cities,
No counties in Alaska either!:)
Just out of curiosity, what is that big chunk of white in south-central Colorado?
True, but if crime statistics+entitlements' recievers+illegal voters were the criteria for blue areas on this same map, you'd see the same dispersion of colors, I'd bet.
You got a point.
I tell people this communism is red, socialism is pink, they are twins!
If five to seven major urban areas were to disappear, this nation would elect a Republican president every time.
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