TooMuchBlue

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2004-11-04

The count by county

Michelle Malkin discovered some maps at USA Today which show the red/blue map by county rather than state. You can view both the 2000 and 2004 maps. 2004 is still incomplete, but I expect it will be updated soon. On the one hand, this doesn't take into account population, so it can't be used to extrapolate the vote. On the other hand, notice where all the blue counties are, especially in states that went blue like California, Oregon, Washington. Maybe this isn't news to anyone else, but I find it striking how much of the Democrats vote comes from big cities, and how few rural areas vote Democrat. It appears the only states where more than half of counties voted Democrat are in the New England area: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and these three states are completely blue in 2000. I wonder if any Dems are nervous that the GOP seems to have picked up a county in Connecticut this year? Also interesting that the New York Times shows 100% of counties in Iowa counted, but still won't call it for Bush, and yet was able to call Maine for Kerry with 95% of precincts tallied and still enough open votes for Bush to win. Rumor has it that the outstanding precincts tend Republican. Perhaps there's a rational reason for this, but it looks to me as if they're trying to give Bush a win without showing any more votes in the Electoral College than they have to.

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