Rolf says: “This is really really interesting. Well, at least to me, being the statistics freak I am. Attached are screen dumps showing election results by county for the whole country. On two, dot size is proportional to the margin by which that county went Bush (red) or Kerry (blue). Look at TX – one Kerry dot isolated in Austin. Then a bunch of small ones in the Rio Grande Valley, and El Paso. Look at Louisiana – only New Orleans. Look at Georgia – only Atlanta region. Also attached are popular vote results by county, and then by population.”
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This analysis is pretty cool, because it tells me the following: thanks to the electoral college, a vote from Wyoming is 3 times that of one in Wisconsin because of their population deficit. Therefore, if more people in rural and underpopulated areas continue to vote for Far-Right Republicans, the electoral vote will always go in their favor. Great.
Yeah, yeah, I know he won the popular vote, too. But, only by a smidgen. Shut up, Jack.
