dogmeat wrote:the_Archangel wrote:nyahbinghi wrote:
I would like to take the opportunity to defend my state.
True, Texas is a red state, but it is an enormous state with a largely rural population. Just like any other state, rural areas tend to lean toward the conservative republican side. If you look at the statistics though, all of the large urban areas of Texas voted in favor of Obama (Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin, which are all some of the largest cities in the entire country). Furthermore, McCain only received 53% of the votes in the entire state. So yeah, just wanted to clear that up...Texas is expected to turn blue within the next 12-15 years.
Yer map can't even be close to accurate arch.
Wyoming is so staunch republican its not even funny. There is not red in wyoming in that map. Something is certainly wrong.
That map tracks the change in votes from the 2004 election to the 2008. The darker the shade of blue, the more an increase in democratic votes. The darker the red, the more the increase in GOP votes. If it's white, there was no change. The map shows that almost all precincts voted more in favor of democrats than they did in 2004, except for that area in LA/TX/AK.
A state can still go red even if they saw an increase in democratic votes. Let's say, hypothetically, because I don't fell like citing, that Wyoming went 75% GOP to 25% democrat in 2004. If they went 60% GOP to 40% democrat in 2008, on that map, they would be blue because they saw an increase in democratic votes.
If a county in TX went 75% GOP to 25% democrat in 2004, and 85% GOP to 15% democrat in 2008, then that county wuold show up red on that map.
The map shows that, even though the GOP won a few states, even those states are starting to lean more democratically, hinting at a possibility of a long-term shift in the political climate. The pendulum swings about once every 15 years. GWB made it swing so drastically far to the right, it's conceivable that it will swng REALLY far to the left at the apex of what is starting right now.
My theory is that it swings every 15 years because people get all excited about the prospect of change in the government because people know by instinct that government is not healthy, but by the end of the 15 years, get tired of what they had, want change, and think that flipping the coin makes a difference. It's still the same coin, though...
