Purple States

[palinode]

Barack Obama has re-created an old breed on the electoral map. Purple states are states with split electoral votes. Nebraska 2008: 4 electoral votes for McCain, 1 electoral vote for Obama. Current tally: 365-162. (Missouri hasn't been projected yet... still... The trifecta of indecision: Florida, Ohio, Missouri. So, what do you guys think? I call this a certain kind of "reaching across the aisle."

[°Leprechaun]

Are they still counting votes in Missouri?
which votes? absentee? or other votes also?
in other words why hasn't it been projected into McCain's column?
interesting since it is the bellweather state.

[memphis]

Some networks have called MO for McCain. Others haven't. In any case, it seems extremely unlikely that Obama will win here. Claming MO had bellweather status was kind of ridiculous given recent elections. It was more Republican than the national popular vote in 2004, 2000 and 1996.

[elcorazon]

Barack Obama has re-created an old breed on the electoral map. Purple states are states with split electoral votes. Nebraska 2008: 4 electoral votes for McCain, 1 electoral vote for Obama. Current tally: 365-162. (Missouri hasn't been projected yet... still... The trifecta of indecision: Florida, Ohio, Missouri. So, what do you guys think? I call this a certain kind of "reaching across the aisle."

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[°Leprechaun]

technically the second square should be red and not the third
This map shows results without percentages except for Missouri:

[°Leprechaun]

Missouri light blue to suggest it is so close not to suggest a certain percent (i.e. 30%)

[°Leprechaun]

Actually, even better:

[minionofmidas]

Actually, even better:

That's ugly.

[°Leprechaun]

Actually, even better:

That's ugly.

maybe so, but it is the way elections are talked about nowadays

[Хahar 🤔]

Actually, even better:

That's ugly.

maybe so, but it is the way elections are talked about nowadays

Doesn't make it better.

[Hash]

Actually, even better:

Disgusting. Remove that disgrace immediately.

[emailking]

That's beautiful. I so wish this site would switch to the colors everybody else uses now. It's especially confusing when you look at past elections.

[Hash]

That's beautiful. I so wish this site would switch to the colors everybody else uses now. It's especially confusing when you look at past elections.

Go away, heathen.

[minionofmidas]

Actually, even better:

That's ugly.

maybe so, but it is the way elections are talked about nowadays

Doesn't make it better.

It looks really, really weird and that's nothing to do with my Atlasian parochial pride in our use of the other scheme. It probably wouldn't look nearly as bad with other shades of red and blue, or simply in the shaded version.

[emailking]

Theoretically, that could have been the actual map you know.

It very well could be the actually map in the future, as Republican and Democratic strongholds have switched in the past and could again at some point.

You're just not used to seeing it that way.

[minionofmidas]

Theoretically, that could have been the actual map you know.

I'm well aware of that.

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Nope, that's not it.
I'll tell you what it is - the blue, on these purely 50 shades maps in the Atlas color scheme, looks sort of like it's "behing" the red. Which is more apparent when it's not in the center of the map, and looks especially strange around Colorado and New Mexico.

[big bad fab]

Tories are in blue, the UMP is in blue....
Aren't Canada's conservatives and Australia's National Party in blue ?
CDU-CSU is in black (a dark blue, sort of...).

Do US MSM even know why they have chosen red for GOP and blue for Dems ?
Because of rednecks ?

[Хahar 🤔]

Tories are in blue, the UMP is in blue....
Aren't Canada's conservatives and Australia's National Party in blue ?
CDU-CSU is in black (a dark blue, sort of...).

Do US MSM even know why they have chosen red for GOP and blue for Dems ?
Because of rednecks ?

Because the United States needs to do everything strangely.

Actually, the CDU uses black and the CSU blue, and the Australian Liberals (the right-wing party) are blue, not the Nationals.

[emailking]

Do US MSM even know why they have chosen red for GOP and blue for Dems ?
Because of rednecks ?

The colors have varied in the past and even been the opposite before. The choice was random and stuck because of the recount stuff in 2000. It's not going to go away now. It's ingrained. We may as well adapt.

[Hash]

Tories are in blue, the UMP is in blue....
Aren't Canada's conservatives and Australia's National Party in blue ?
CDU-CSU is in black (a dark blue, sort of...).

Do US MSM even know why they have chosen red for GOP and blue for Dems ?
Because of rednecks ?

Because the United States needs to do everything strangely.

Actually, the CDU uses black and the CSU blue, and the Australian Liberals (the right-wing party) are blue, not the Nationals.

Nats use darker greener that many often confuse with the Greenies. SaskParty uses green too.

[Workers' Friend]

Tories are in blue, the UMP is in blue....
Aren't Canada's conservatives and Australia's National Party in blue ?
CDU-CSU is in black (a dark blue, sort of...).

Do US MSM even know why they have chosen red for GOP and blue for Dems ?
Because of rednecks ?

Because the United States needs to do everything strangely.

Actually, the CDU uses black and the CSU blue, and the Australian Liberals (the right-wing party) are blue, not the Nationals.

Are the CDU Anarchists or Fascists then?

[Hash]

Tories are in blue, the UMP is in blue....
Aren't Canada's conservatives and Australia's National Party in blue ?
CDU-CSU is in black (a dark blue, sort of...).

Do US MSM even know why they have chosen red for GOP and blue for Dems ?
Because of rednecks ?

Because the United States needs to do everything strangely.

Actually, the CDU uses black and the CSU blue, and the Australian Liberals (the right-wing party) are blue, not the Nationals.

Are the CDU Anarchists or Fascists then?

LOL

[minionofmidas]

Tories are in blue, the UMP is in blue....
Aren't Canada's conservatives and Australia's National Party in blue ?
CDU-CSU is in black (a dark blue, sort of...).

Do US MSM even know why they have chosen red for GOP and blue for Dems ?
Because of rednecks ?

Because the United States needs to do everything strangely.

Actually, the CDU uses black and the CSU blue, and the Australian Liberals (the right-wing party) are blue, not the Nationals.

Are the CDU Anarchists or Fascists then?

Black in Germany was traditionally the color of political catholicism.

Although the ÖVP embraces black, the CDU and CSU have always had slight hangups about it. The term's ingrained in popular usage though (although maps more typically use blue - understandably given that black's not shadeable.)

[Ebowed]

That's beautiful. I so wish this site would switch to the colors everybody else uses now. It's especially confusing when you look at past elections.

You are immoral.

[Person Man]

Yeah. You are going to hell.

Just because everyone else does it, doesn't make it right. Like being an Epee fencer, for example.