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Post-Election Irony
The Democratic Daily —
... to discover, as the truth plainly is, that your proof does not touch the issue. The fact that we get no votes in your section, is a fact of your making, and not of ours…. (February 27, 1860)
This speech was delivered at Cooper Union in New York City, a hall that still exists, and in which Barack Obama delivered a major speech on the economy this spring.
Now, here’s the map (h/t Matt Yglesias):
New York Times (click map to enlarge)
Eerie, ...
Red Shift/Blue Shift--A County-Level View
Open Left - Front Page —
The New York Times has a set of maps and charts that add some dramatic detail to the nature of Obama's victory--particularly its set of county-level maps. First up, a county-level map showing the whopping 22% of counties that became more Republican this election than they were in 2004: ...
Numbers Are Fun Until Someone Loses an Eye
If I Ran the Zoo —
... To see this illustrated graphically, check out this map--especially slide 3, comparing counties where Democrats increased their totals over 2004 with those where Republicans increased their vote totals. Bottom line: tomorrow's GOP is the party of Appazarkia. ...
Is Alaska the New Florida?
Politics Daily —
... By any measure, Alaska is a red state. Since its star was added to our flag back in 1959, the place has only voted Democrat for president once, in '64. While much of the country seemed to turn a bluer hue in this year's election, Alaska held its ground, and gave McCain/Palin a nearly identical ...
"Outbreaks from the Blacks"
Rising Hegemon —
As far as we come is as far as we have to go ... Irony: the only swath of counties that voted more Republican in 2008 forms a red crescent.
Michael Giltz: Obama's Win and the Ten Lies The Right Is Spreading About It
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... been much bigger? Sure he won, but it's not like Obama got a rousing endorsement. (This from the party where Bush squeaked out a win in 2004 by one state and 50.7% of the vote but immediately insisted it was a mandate.) Where to begin? The win by Obama and the Democrats was nationwide and significant on many levels. Obama won the biggest percentage of the popular vote for any Democrat since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. He's the first to win more than 50% since Carter in 1976. Virtually, the entire country went more Democratic than Republican -- except for the Old Confederacy, where ...
House Handicapping One Year Out
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
... Wasserman included the cap-and-trade vote, he says, because voting for it may be particularly dangerous for Democrats from districts containing significant chunks of those white working-class areas depicted in that now-famous map of the 22 percent of counties nationally where John Kerry in 2004 outperformed Barack Obama in 2008. "In the rural areas of the South—the parts of the South were Barack Obama did worse than John Kerry in 2004—there is an open revolt against Democrats and particularly Barack Obama," said Wasserman. He cited as specific evidence of this revolt from last ...
The Scots-Irish Continue To Influence America
Southern Appeal —
... and by clicking on individual states to see the county-by-county returns. This map showing the counties which cast a higher percentage of votes for John McCain in 2008 than for George W. Bush in 2004 is essentially a map of the Jacksonian belt. If Vic Snyder is in trouble, it’s a good bet that many other Democrats from the Jacksonian belt are too. Very interesting. ...
