Edward Teach
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Pure said:Ed said, USA Today thought the numbers meant something but then what do they know, huh, Pure.
Exactly. They're on a par with CNN as part of the propaganda machine, except dumbed down even more.
As several posters and outside columnists have pointed out, the liberal/conservative split is about even, and there are a lot of middle of the road people. One example issue is abortion. Various factors can skew the picture (as US Today apparently wishes to), such states' representation in the electoral college and Senate, and the exceptional turnout of evangelical voters (shown on TV registering in special tour buses parked outside the churches).
You can keep trying to bring race into the issue but it just shows how little you really know.
Race IS an issue, as the voting breakdown, in the South and elsewhere attests. Do you think it's a simple mistake about interests that gives about 90% of the Black vote to Dems? Do you think it's a coincidence that Republican victories in the South, e.g., Bush, are premised on getting a very substantial majority of white voters? (My guess is 70 or more percent for rural white southerners, but supply an authoritative figure if you have one.)
The same skewing factors are present in states (skew toward square miles being represented, more than people), and again race is a clear issue in all states with substantial minorities of Black people. Dems won PA on the strength of city votes for Democrats by the stated, vast majority of Black people. The Republican strategy--unsuccessful in the PA case-- was to go for the rural white vote.
US society is divided--as if, by a chasm-- in several ways, race being one of them, and Republicans have (better) managed to capitalize on it, in the South and some other states.
But I'm sure you can find someone at US Today to disagree about this.
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Ed's citation.
According to USA Today, the area of the counties won by Bush is 2,540,000 square miles while Kerry only won 592,000. The population of the counties Bush won was 159,200,000 while Kerry won 130,900,000.
I think you just proved my point.
Ed
