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[IceSpear]

I thought I was on your ignore list. I see your use of the ignore function is as consistent as your ideology.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

It never was a big issue for them. They only started caring about it on January 20, 2009.

[TDAS04]

Badly

[ElectionsGuy]

President: TDAS04 (D-SD)
Vice President:  Flo (G-FL)

Chief of Staff:  Napoleon (D-NY)
Press Secretary:  Cranberry (D-AT)

Secretary of State:  dead0man (I-NE)
Secretary of the Treasury:  windjammer (D-FR)
Secretary of Defense:  ChairmanSanchez (R-FL)
Attorney General:  Scott (D-NC)
Secretary of the Interior:  Matt (D-VT)
Secretary of Agriculture:  RR1997 (R-IA)
Secretary of Commerce:  ElectionsGuy (L-WI)
Secretary of Labor:  Adam Griffin (D-GA)
Secretary of Education:  Nathan (D-MA)
Secretary of Health and Human Services:  Snowguy (D-MN)
Secretary of Transportation:  Supersonic (R-UK)
Secretary of Energy:  politicus (I-DK)
Secretary of Veterans Affairs:  Tmthforu94 (R-KS)
Secretary of Homeland Security:  Alfred F. Jones (D-NY)
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development:  Grumps (L-PA)

[tik 🪀✨]

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Not sure what the huge drop in Alabama is all about.

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Kind of weird that Washington is over 10% black here, drops massively to less than 1% in next census.

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1910 (See OP)

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[Antonio the Sixth]

I got accepted simply because I could play the organ.

I have indeed noticed that you are exceptional at playing the organ. You, as an Oxford student, will astutely notice that my usage of "organ" points towards your genitalia. Ungainly as it may be, your lateral thinking will also connect the dots and realize that my reference to your genitalia is symbolic - to your ego and self-worth. How your intellectual caliber has penetrated my multilayered facade to reveal the true intent of my barb! You have realized that I've accused your head of being firmly lodged inside of your excrement's last passage. An overwhelming urge froths in your subconscious - a wish to call me childish. Truly is this the pontification of a poo-poo head.

[JerryArkansas]

Maryland

There, I simply merged the neighboring Delaware and DC into Maryland, adding about 1.5 million to the State's population. This, as you can imagine, doesn't change much to the State's political outlook. However, the overwhelmingly democratic DC would push the State somewhat to the left of OTL Maryland, with significant consequences.

MD Presidential election results, 1960-2012:


Indeed, this new Maryland becomes one of the most consistently Democratic States of the past half-century, voting Republican only once (Nixon's 1972 landslide) since 1960. Both times, the narrow Republican victories of 1984 and 1988 are canceled by DC's heavy Democratic margins (even as Delaware alone would have brought the State further toward the GOP). The most striking result is that, under this scenario, Mondale actually won more than one State. He carried MD by 0.4 points, more than the 0.2 point margin he had in Minnesota! Clearly, even a numerically small constituency like DC can make a major difference if it's sufficiently overwhelming in its support for one party.

Comparing the new and old States' relative PVI brings further perspective (DC is omitted because its PVI fluctuates between 50 and 80, and thus would skew the graph too much):



As you can see, the "new" Maryland remains always about 5 points more democratic than its RL counterpart. Delaware's political leanings, generally a bit more Republican than MD's, have almost no influence. On the other hand, DC's impact is significant, turning an already solid-D State into stronghold territory. Since DC residents began to vote in 1964, this new Maryland has always been at least 7 points more Democratic than the nation. The only time when OTL Maryland displayed a slight Republican lean IRL, namely 1972, saw McGovern lose by only 16 points in this scenario. Starting in the 2000s, Maryland's PVI has been at or above 20 points, making it rock-solid Democratic country.

Capital: I'd say Annapolis still works fine.

Governor: Still Martin O'Malley

Senators: Tom Carper (class 1) and Barbara Mikulski (class 3) - I'll be nice and give poor little Delaware a Senator

Representatives: With the State Legislature solidly in Democratic hands, the party would have no trouble creating a gerrymander like the OTL one, and getting a 9D-1R delegation. They might even take all 10 seats for them in if they play their cards right with New Castle County, but I can't know that for sure. Regardless, giving congressional representation to DC would net the Democrats one more seat.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Agree with him or not, he fought for a cause he thought was right and he spent his life doing it.  That's something everyone can and should respect.  RIP

[Negusa Nagast 🚀]

Is Adam aware that online petitions are just email address collectors that are a form of dirty politics in and of themselves.

Lets be honest here: Ed FitzGerald is a manwhore.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Put all FFs. The Vermont senators are fantastic, the Virginia senators are mediocre.

Warner is the worst and most overrated senator of the bunch.

[TDAS04]

People don't lay themselves off. The idea that any degree of 'personal responsibility' on the workers' parts could have averted this or that it constitutes their failure in any meaningful way is insane.

[JerryArkansas]

This thread was just going to compare the black % by state in 1910 and 1970, but ElectionsGuy wants to create maps for all the decades, back through 1790.  To start, I'll just show that even in 1910 the black distribution was very different from today. 

1910:

From darkest to lightest green:
50.0% or more African-Amerian
40.0-49.9%
30.0-39.9%
20.0-29.9%
10.0-19.9%
5.0-9.9%
Less than 5.0% African-American

ElectionsGuy's maps will use the same color scheme.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Got another back rub from Nikki Haley.  Also for some reason Aaron Schock was marrying Joe Biden in the dream.

[LeBron]

Maybe my comment was out of place, but the fact is you guys are under a little more scrutiny than everyone else, just because people are always talking about doing away with the Pacific. It's unfair, but it is what it is. I don't want to see the region disappear. And from the outside looking in, a thread with no discussion and the governor pleading for input doesn't really look good. That's all I'm saying.

Anyway, I'll leave you be. I know it's a busy time.

[IceSpear]

Still a yes. People's Magazine might think Cuomo is "sexy", but he really does look ugly and come on! He's gay and he should be able to get someone hot and young like his dad.

[Flake]

God damn it Florida.

[Enderman]

Lake County, Florida

1888: >50% Cleveland
1892: >90% Cleveland
1896: >60% Bryan
1900: >70% Bryan
1904: >60% Parker
1908: >50% Bryan
1912: >70% Wilson
1916: >60% Wilson
1920: >50% Cox
1924: >50% Davis
1928: >60% Hoover
1932: >50% Roosevelt
1936: >60% Roosevelt
1940: >60% Roosevelt
1944: >50% Roosevelt
1948: >40% Dewey
1952: >70% Eisenhower
1956: >70% Eisenhower
1960: >60% Nixon
1964: >60% Goldwater
1968: >40% Nixon
1972: >80% Nixon
1976: >50% Ford
1980: >70% Reagan
1984: >70% Reagan
1988: >60% Bush
1992: >40% Bush
1996: >40% Dole
2000: >50% Bush
2004: >60% Bush
2008: >50% McCain
2012: >50% Romney

14 Democratic Votes
18 Republican Votes

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

32. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Mar. 4, 1993 - Jan. 20, 1941

FDR IS TIME LORD AFTER ALL!

[Bacon King]

If FitzGerald had active epilepsy and was barred from driving due to seizures, would the right-wing media make a "scandal" of that too?

What if he was legally blind?

I wouldn't vote for a blind guy who illegally drove around for like 10 years.  That is the definition of terrible judgement and would be quite a scandal.  One other thing, you know things are bad when the best argument your supporters can make is "What if he was legally blind?"

[Oakvale]

Literally this

[Antonio the Sixth]

No, seriously guys, really great work. Posting numbers is a worthwhile use of bandwidth.

[NHLiberal]

Anything in this thread: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=102228.175

[Flake]

I love Biden and think he'd make a phenomenal President...but I really really really really hope he doesn't run.

[Cranberry]

Crist w/ economic plan

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Rick Scott being Rick Scott

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Scott pledges to protect the environment but refuses to believe that global warming is happening

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Wyllie courts disaffected voters

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AG Candidate Sheldon has residency concerns

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[TDAS04]

You are talking about the perception of family. Of course is our perception of family "humane", yet it is bound to a "natural" bonding, said little higher amount of shared DNA. We could argue that it is our perception of a nation that is "humane", yet there is no "natural" level below, some quality that is unique to just this nation. A nation therefore is a considerably more "humane" construct than a family.

Of course do people from the same nations find themselves more home in another part of that same nation than in another nation. This however is not a natural instinct of people, this is something trainable, something learned, because from the day of our birth we have heard "you are a member of this nation, that guy over there belongs to that nation". Of course a nation can be useful as a "social construct" but there is no evidence that a bond of nations, or a Union of regions, or the whole world, or just your  region alone, or your town or city, or your street, or your house, or your room, or the square you're sitting upon at the moment isn't a just as useful "social construct". So, by taking your own argument, it is precisely not silly to suggest that one's country is devoid of meaning. One's bond of nations, one's Union of regions, one's whole world, one's region alone, one's town or city, one's street, one's house, one's room, one's square one is sitting upon at the moment can fulfill exactly the same purpose.

(Funny that you mentioned Innsbruck, that city is just ten minutes away from my home )