[extropy-chat] Enlightenment and the election

[Brent Neal]

 (11/10/04 0:09) David Lubkin <extropy at unreasonable.com> wrote:

>Given the abundance of red in nominally blue states, the state-level view 
>is inadequate, and leads to erroneous conclusions. See
>
>2000    http://tinyurl.com/3ndap
>2004    http://tinyurl.com/3l2uz
>
>on USA Today for maps color-coded by county. Notice how red New York is, where
>Bush got about 40% of the vote (and 50% of the white vote).


Its funny you bring this up. Your maps also lead to erroneous conclusions, since they do not account for either 1) the population density of the counties in question or 2) the margins by which Bush won.  For a clearer picture, see 

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


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