Friday, March 27, 2009

Yet More on the 2008 Election

It's not actually possible, it turns out, to run out of maps of the 2008 US election. To wit:



Congressional Quarterly has an interactive map that lets you see how Obama and McCain did by congressional district. You can see, for instance, that McCain won West Virginia's 3rd Congressional District 56-42%, even as Democratic congressguy Nich Rahall carried the district with 67% of the vote. Or that B. Obama won New York's 23rd by 5% while Republican representative John McHugh skated by Democrat M. Oot by more than 30 points in the same district.

The map looks redder than you might expect, but that's due to the fact that - to quote Wee Willie Keeler, who said it in a different context - the Republicans tend to "hit 'em where they ain't"; they do better in the parts of the country where people tend not to live, and where the congressional districts eat up more of the map. In fact, Obama won 242 of the 435 districts in the country (though he actually underperformed congressional Democrats, who won 257 districts).

Meanwhile, Beyond Chron notices that Republicans in California, already a threatened species, may need to claim full endangered status in the near future:
Barack Obama carried eight Congressional Districts that had long voted for Republican presidential candidates, and John McCain came close to losing three more. All these districts are currently represented in Congress by Republicans, but a few incumbents came close last year to losing to Democratic challengers. It’s only a matter of time before some of these districts will eventually flip. None of this is a surprise, however, because the state’s Republican base is older, whiter and shrinking in size.
Old, white, and shrinking. Forget politics - I don't think anything that can be described that way is in good shape.

18 comments:

Konsultan Marketing-Konsultan Perusahaan said...

nice information

Best Starcraft 2 Guide
Eulogy Examples
how to last longer in bed
how to prevent premature ejaculation

Chapunk Brinkka said...

PLEASE VISIT MY BLOG!!
We want to tell you how to enlarge penis a naturally with herbal supplements,without surgery and completely natural.

justin bieber said...

I don't know if best practices have emerged round things like that, however I am certain that your job is clearly recognized as a good game.

accompagnatrici milano said...

Here, I do not actually consider it is likely to have effect.

posicionamiento en google said...

Thanks for your article, very useful information.

www.muebles-en-guipuzcoa.com said...

Well, I do not really imagine it is likely to have effect.

Anonymous said...

reverse cell phone lookup

reverse address lookup

cell phone directory

phone number search

free people search

criminal background check

reverse phone lookup

reverse phone lookup

album foto said...

I think people fear idea management and innovation because there's a significant number of ideas that simply won't plan out.......Nice statement.....keep posting

asuransi pendidikan said...

this day I've been searching for information on various issues, this I found very good and I would like to congratulate you for your work.

design interior jakarta said...

I think that this post is one of the best that i have read in my life, congrats you did a great job,.

perusahaan security said...

the difference between the content spammers and most corporate innovators is that the smaller

jual wine said...

I'm writing to you because I just came across a business that I think has great potential. It lets you save money on almost everything. Make money from almost everything,

coklat valentine said...

If growth is important to a firm, and if growth is dependent on offering existing products and services to new customers

belajar internet marketing said...

innovation is very natural and happens in the "real world" as new plants and animals colonize new ecological niches.

konsultan perusahaan said...

I wonder how you got so good. This is really a fascinating blog, lots of stuff that I can get into. One thing I just want to say is that your Blog is so perfect

kuliner bandung said...

We generally think most specifically about the risk associated with a new product introduction

how to stay erect said...

I would be aware that as somebody who really doesn’t comment to blogs a lot (in actual fact, this may be my first put up), I don’t think the time period “lurker” is very flattering to a non-posting reader.

Susan said...

Thanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic. Picuki is an Online Instagram viewer tool which helps people analyzing and viewing Instagram profile, hashtag.