Posted on 11/05/2004 5:22:37 PM PST by RebelAlbertan
As always, thanks for your help. It worked!
Might as well color Minnesota red. If any partition occurs we have Minneapolis surrounded and can push Duluth into the big lake.
Santa Claus is a Democrat?
Haven't been up to Seattle in a while, but from what I hear even San Francisco could now be considered "Seattle Lite" on that scale. ;)
On a side note: has anyone seen a gradient-version of the county-level red/blue map showing the ratios of the states (i.e. landslide-Republican as pure red, landslide-dempocrap as pure blue, gradient in-between) to get a more accurate idea of how the vote really went?
This binary red/blue representation has the capability of "being more than a little misleading"...
The map of Canada is based on the last federal election.
Saskatchewan did elect a socialist government, but it was almost a compete rural-urban split, and only one or two seats splitting the urban-dominated socialist NDP and the conservative Saskatchewan Party, who received 65-70% of the popular vote in much of rural Saskatchewan. In the federal election, Saskatchewan voted overwhelmigly Conservative, the exception being one Liberal.
Alberta and British Columbia currently have conservative govenrments, although Alberta's Progressive Conservative Party are not acting very conservative these days. As for BC, their provincial government is the Liberal Party, which is a misnomer, as they are a conservative party.
Northern British Columbia has a large native population that voted either NDP or Liberal (I'm not sure) last federal election, that's why it is blue.
Yukon and the Territories only have a handful of seats, and they usually go Liberal as everyone up there is working for the government in one form or another.
Just the coast and the big cities in Kalifornia.
Wow. The gif posted in this direction resembles a politics Rorshak test: See the red lady? Tip of her nose is pointing into Canda, Florida is her hair comb. She looks very content bundled in a blanket smiling towards the north. Alaska are her feet snuggled in lambs wool slippers. :)
I kinda thought it looked a big menacing blue claw trying to grab all of North America.
I think we need to amputate a few fingers.
Yeah, it's a crying shame for you folks up there. Apparently, we are all doomed to having foreign opinion of us dictated by the Eastern Establishment Press. I must put a mea culpa here: I did not know better until I started spending time in the American West.
Yeah, you've even got Cowboys competing in the rodeos down here.
Now for the big question: Do the European countries have a red/blue thing going on as well? One cannot help but wonder.
I'm liking it a lot, so when can we trade? :)
Yeah, I'm confused now. Here I though Alaska was a large island off the coast of Baja California.
Funny, I see a big open mouthed figure looking right, with Michigan as the eyebrow, Illinois the nose, and the west coast the jaw.
Looks OK by me. Still, I say we kick the "fellow travelers" out of the left coast. I like the sunsets there.
Someone should do a count of the congressional districts that went red vs blue. If the electoral college was allocated by CD rather than winner take all by state W would probably won 400-140.
By the way I would welcome our Canadian cousins.
I see it! You remember that nasty BLUE MEANIE fist in the cartoon "yellow submarine"? I agree with you on amputating a few fingers...
I see it. It looks angry. That "eye" looks very intense and furious. brrrr!
Plus we will throw in The Left Coast of the US to boot.
roger that
LOL!
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