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Re: I wouldn't posit "nothingness" either.
podrock — (archived)

Red and Blue used to alternate from election to election with the graphics from the major news networks. It wasn't until the silliness of the election of 2000 that these colors became cemented and codified to represent the parties themselves. I remember a rather heated arguement I had with a family member during Thanksgiving of that crazy autumn about the outcome of the election, which was still in the courts. He pulled out a map of the red and the blue, and said "look at this map! Do you see all the red? That's why Bush is the winner."

I laughed my ass off. I told him that those of us in the sparsely populated western states would be delighted if our votes were counted based upon geographic size as opposed to the electoral college's population weighting.

And that's why the whole red and blue thing is bullshit. Show an electoral map that is mostly one color means absoultely nothing. As you well know, it causes a mental and emotional impression that is just a way of lying with maps. If the sizes of the states were modified to reflect population on the map, it'd be a different picture altogether.

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