The latest electoral map.......from today's LA Times:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

[n2doc]

1. electronic version:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Thanks! I just take it out of my paper.....too lazy to look online, LOL!

[FailureToCommunicate]

60. Sorry, but I don't believe you

You? Lazy? You seem tireless to us here at DU!

[Beartracks]

69. LOL Wasn't scanning it harder work?

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

77. Nah...scanning is easy!

[carolinayellowdog]

59. Virginia, snake handlers to the south, the 47% to the north-- fits to a T

do we go with the reptilian or the mammalian brain in 2012?

[Beacool]

93. Funny!!

I guess that I live in the 47% area (which right now it's getting windswept).

Very funny, although I would have called FL "retirees", "old geezers" or something similar.

[Politicalboi]

2. LOL!

Palin Land, Lobsters, snake handlers.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. It is too funny!

[Panasonic]

17. Hey Peggy - got a book for you to read.

"Dark Justice" by William Bernhardt. Don't ask me - just read the book. A bit of a surprise for you there.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. I'll check it out, and thanks!

Of course, you know I'm going to look at it on Amazon before I buy it...

[Panasonic]

53. Okay

I can tell you that I'm still in the middle of reading it, and enjoying it - William Bernhardt is a good author!

I call him poor man's version of John Grisham.

[KansDem]

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[footinmouth]

82. Don't forget the free 2-day shipping

That's been a godsend. I signed up for it and I'm definitely renewing when it comes around.

[timber84]

3. Lobsters!

[trailmonkee]

62. .

[limpyhobbler]

4. LOL. this is one for the history books.

[montanacowboy]

6. OMG

that is the best laff I have had in DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Glad to give you that laugh!

[Kadie]

7. Lobsters!

[gottavote]

10. Good laugh Peggy. Work to keep GOTV going. Working in the hinderlands.

GOTV today, GOTV tomorrow, GOTV forever (at least until the California polls close)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. Welcome to DU, gottavote!

Glad to bring you a laugh!

I love your username...very appropriate!

GOTV is indeed extremely important.....the most important thing now.

Good luck with your efforts!

[calimary]

30. Welcome to DU, gottavote!

Excellent work you're already doing, although California won't be a problem for us for the foreseeable future (not that we should EVER take it for granted - the bad guys would LOVE to turn it into a red state!).

Glad you're here! We need you! This "Hollywood Liberal" - according to this map anyway - salutes you!






Keep it up!

[BumRushDaShow]

11. OMG Bingo!

[Zoeisright]

13. Hey! Minnesota is Norwegian!

[madrchsod]

28. my swedish side of the family moved to minnesota from iowa because....

no one where they lived could stand the smell of lutefisk....

[freshwest]

37. The Swedish part of my family always threatened to 'leave the USA and move back to Minn-e-so-ta...'

[SomeGuyInEagan]

78. Actually, here it is pronounced Minn-e-sooooooooooooo-ta n/t

[freshwest]

83. Was running out of title space.... And the saying was:

"I'm a gonna leave these here United States and go back to ...Minn-e-sooooooooooooo-ta!"

[lutefisk]

61. ...excuse me?

[madrchsod]

79. sorry about that......

[freshwest]

36. Uff Dah!

[geardaddy]

40. It's more German!

Besides, we're not all Scandahoovian or German here.

[hifiguy]

50. True. Only about 85 percent are.

In the little town where my mom grew up a "mixed marriage" was when a good German girl married a Swede or a Norseman. But at least the Swedes and Norwegians were Lutherans, too, so it wasn't a total deal breaker.

[Beacool]

94. LOL!!!

I got to tell that to my Norwegian neighbor. In my town a mixed marriage of old would have been the wedding of an Irish and an Italian.

[darkangel218]

14. Lmao@minutemen !!

[progressoid]

15. Obama Islands!

[DRoseDARs]

24. Would have been funnier if they'd been labelled Kenya. That'd've cheesed the birthers off. :) nt

[freshwest]

38. And TREE HUGGERS!

[Panasonic]

16. Phew.

Horsey left Colorado alone. Thankfully.

[Initech]

18. Guess that makes me a Hollywood liberal!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. Me too!

[catbyte]

21. Harumph, I'm GM. I want LOBSTERS!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. Hey, you'll just have to move, LOL!

[catbyte]

74. Yeah, I never have caught a lobster in Lake Michigan, lol

[SheilaT]

22. oohhhh, the map labels

Minnesota as Swedes. I can guess there are a lot of unhappy Norwegians up there right now.

[hifiguy]

51. Germans, too. But all Scandihoovians and Germans

pretty much look the same to you outsiders.

[dchill]

25. I live near the border...

of OHIO and The 47%!

Lucky me!

[LeftofObama]

26. LOL!

[JDPriestly]

27. I'll take Obama Islands over Palinland any day.

I hadn't thought of the election in those terms, but that sort of says it. Obama -- a lush landscape, flowing streams, beautiful birds. Happy days really are here again. Palin -- freezing temperatures and a bleak and colorless landscape in vast areas.

[madrchsod]

29. i live in chicago politics...wait a minute... horsey is right!

[NJCher]

31. personally, I got a laugh out of

"Chicago politics."

Signed,

in the "47 per cent,"


Cher

[liberal N proud]

32. And our TV screens are all broken because of that map

You just want to throw something at the damn thing after about the 30th lie in the last minute.

4 out of every 5 commericals

[CaliforniaPeggy]

41. I'm sorry!

I was trying for something funny.......not something that upsets you...

[liberal N proud]

44. There is an upside ...

We saw the President last night and his big bird.

[AspenRose]

33. Dude, everybody up there knows it's really "lobstah"

[Buddaman]

34. !!

[Riverman]

35. Love this: I am at least 3 of the 4 west coasters, and proud of it!

And, have family, friends, lovers and co-conspiritors in swing states: Ohio, Florida, Cororadao, distant relatives in Iowa - hope they have the good sense to VOTE for OBAMA! I already did.

[freshwest]

39. +1

[Spitfire of ATJ]

42. Reminds me of the one he did in the 80s....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

45. Oh, this is priceless! Thanks for sharing it, LOL!

I'll bet it wasn't far from the truth, either.....

[Spitfire of ATJ]

49. It was soooo pathetic seeing all of the "This is Reagan Country" bumper stickers at the beach.

[Tx4obama]

47. Kangaroos - LOL :) n/t

[hifiguy]

52. That deserves an OP of its own.

"kangaroos"

[Spitfire of ATJ]

54. Some of us long time political watchers can recall stuff that's like a revealation to the new folks.

[libdem4life]

80. What can I say...too busy laughing...I was there...hopelessly hilarious!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

81. To listen to the Right these days Reagan was universally loved except by a small fringe....

In reality he was universally mocked except by a bunch of people who believed the hair on a 70 year old guy was jet black.

[Beacool]

95. LOL!!!

Their missiles, our missiles. Still true.........

[Spitfire of ATJ]

98. My favorite is "Thatcherland - Reaganomics prototype"

He used to use England under Thatcher to deflect questions as to why his policies weren't working. He'd claim they worked great over there and we all had to be patient because we had just gone through the sheer hell of Jimmy Carter who had destroyed the economy. Forget about Ford and his "WIN" buttons, the economy was GREAT under Republicans and nosedives under Democrats.

Same thing Mitt is planning on doing if he gets in.

[No Vested Interest]

43. And I Am **********

OHIO!
And I've voted (Dem)!
And I'm no longer getting robo- and other political calls. - Guess the BOE has my ballot.
But - I'm still getting a lot of Dem emails, urging me to GIVE, or WORK.
And those darn TV ads are constant - and ugly.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

46. Welcome to DU, No Vested Interest!

You're in good company.........there are many Ohioans here.

I hope to see you posting from time to time!

[DemocracyInaction]

48. I am a lobstah

And all the rest is "fuckin' nuts land"::::now get the hell off my front yard...

[Hutzpa]

55. Young lady, you have out done yourself ma'am.

Snake handlers, Oil Men, Palinland and Lobsters... heh.

Just one more thing, if you say Palinland fast enough it sounds like plainland.

[GetTheRightVote]

56. I could not have drawn it better myself...

[davidpdx]

57. I saw that on Facebook, but the bottom part was cut off

So I missed seeing Alaska and Hawaii. Funny stuff.

[Michigan Alum]

58. Love it!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

63. cool. but why 47% for northeast? thought people proved most in south?

[Mz Pip]

64. I don't get that either

That section of the country pays a good chunk of Red State welfare.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

65. think they kind of mixed ideas here between what an area is comprised of (ie CA) and

what is of importance in the election (ie Ohio). still cool though

[Odin2005]

66. Hey, I'm a Norskie, not a Swede!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

67. United States of Canada vs JesusLand

[Beartracks]

68. Not one candidate has sought the Swede vote! n/t

[Wounded Bear]

70. Hey, I haven't hugged a tree in years....

Thanks for posting.

[CrispyQ]

71. Horsey . . .

[Anthony McCarthy]

72. Imagine no electoral college

Imagine how this would look if there was no electoral college. Imagine if Texas and Alaska liberals counted.

[Alcibiades]

99. If that's the goal

Then what's needed is proportional representation and a parliamentary system.

[littlemissmartypants]

73. Just read a piece of

premier fiction about Snake Handlers (full disclosure I have been told there are some of those nuts in my family tree) Book Title: A LAND MORE KIND THAN HOME, highly rec. it.

http://www.amazon.com/Land-More-Kind-Than-Home/dp/0062088149

A stunning debut reminiscent of the beloved novels of John Hart and Tom Franklin, A Land More Kind Than Home is a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small western North Carolina town.

[a la izquierda]

75. Who knew Ohio was so big?

Oh, I suppose anyone who has the misfortune of driving across it via I70...

[JNelson6563]

84. Great fun! I'm in "GM".

heh I see Horsey is as fun & clever as ever.

Julie--tho' not quite getting the "47%" region...

[blkmusclmachine]

85. .

[joshcryer]

86. Here in Colorado a Super PAC is playing the "built my own coffin" ad. Every 20-30 minutes.

It's crazy. Almost overkill really.

[BainsBane]

87. The placement of the 47% is strange

Particularly since that area includes Wall Street and the rest of Manhattan.

[William769]

88. Kick & recommended.

[Jamaal510]

89. According to this, I live in the part of the country labeled "gays".

[Honeycombe8]

90. LOL!

[OrwellwasRight]

91. Posted on Facebook!

Thanks!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

92. Hey, my pleasure!

I often bring stuff from over there.

This one I got from the LA Times.

[upi402]

96. Horsey is on it

[CaliforniaPeggy]

97. The man is a genius! Thanks...