Change your view of the country - beautiful maps/cartograms of 04 election

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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/

From the University of Michigan.

Scroll down to see all the conventional maps of the election results transformed into actual cartographic representations. It will make you see the country in a new way.

I wish I could figure out how to post one of these as an image. MUST SEE!

[Catch22Dem]

1. County by county...adjusted for population

[SoCalDem]

14. Looks like a swayback goldfish.. a male one

:)

[Catch22Dem]

2. Even better....adjusted for actual vote totals by population

instead of win/loss. Does this look like a mandate to you?

[Mr_Spock]

7. Man-date? No, looks more like a paint-ball battle to me

Where's the man-date in that picture?

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9. Thanks, Catch22,

My usual posting methods weren't working for me. These are so great, we look like some wonderful creature.

[Pirate Smile]

3. Yes, these are the maps the dems need to be trotting out whenever

they keep flashing the ridiculous red/blue maps they show now.

Someone send it to Alan Colmes for the next time asswipe Hannity trots out the red/blue map he loves.

[libbygurl]

4. Ahh! Very interesting! And who says we need to stick to the flat

simple blue-and red, unrepresentative map we've been beaten over the head with? I like the ones that incoporate the populations of the different states!

[Morning Dew]

5. Those are very cool, thanks for posting that!

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. wow it is wild

an a psycological boost

[pk_du]

8. I love it .......DIRT DONT VOTE GEORGE...where's that fucking mandate

.... unless of course he was talking about (M)anne Coulter

[Old and In the Way]

10. Another map that represents population density topographically

http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/election2004/

But CNN/corporate media and the RNC want to keep pushing the Red State v. Blue State meme because if people really understand voting stats, they will see that it is a cynical attempt to make geography more important than people. Red v. Blue is the most cynical devisive tool they have to pit us against each other.

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11. Thanks, that is an interesting page.

You're right that this red v. blue state business is a "cynical devisive tool." I hadn't thought of it that way. I know my blood pressure has gone down a few notches since seeing these maps.

[bayby]

12. And who made us the "blue" states anyway ?

Why not red states and GREEN states ?

[Old and In the Way]

13. At least the red states are appropriate for the 'Pukes.

They really do want a totalitarian, one-party government.

[NJCher]

15. I want to get the networks to use this type of map

Cher

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16. kick for the daylight hours.

[UTUSN]

17. Thanks for the Maps - the "red states" Crap Is Disgusting

This morning Don ANUS said he was looking at some map like this and what he chose to emphasize was, "California is RED except for (L.A.)." He chose to omit the winner-take-all aspect that gives a 1% state wholly over.