I can tell U right now, THAT map is wrong....first off my husband went ballistic about how Colorado has turned into a BLUE,not purple state....because of the 5 day wait period to purchase a gun....The portion of BLUE
ON THE MAP OF COLORADO , I can tell U right now...THAT is where I live... montrose and it is MOST
DEFINITELY NOT D,BUT RATHER R. I don't knowwhere U got this bogus map,but RECHECKING the
source would be advisable.
The map is accurate and leads into my next post about the counties. The map shows counties and which way they voted. I closely resembles the 2016 map except with more red as more counties went to Trump this time around - by a lot.
So Obama won a record low percentage of counties in his 2008 victory but were expected to believe that Biden blew past his vote totals while only winning 527 counties? I don’t think so scooter...
You do realize that counties and land mass don't vote? People vote, which is why Biden received 7,000,000 more votes than Trump.
This silly map has been circulated in some form or another after every election for the past 20 years. Conservatives like to use it to try to prove that more people voted red, but in reality it's just a map of land, not people.
A couple more images of accurate maps from previous elections.
I understand the concept just fine, thank you. You just laid out the perfect argument for the electoral college. 527 counties.... 17% went for Biden. That is by far the lowest number in history. That tells me that voter fraud was rampant in big cities, but we already know that.
I am trying to find a study I read a while back that looked at counties that were adjacent and were essentially the same community but had a random line drawn through the middle. In 2016 they voted almost identically, but in 2020 there was an average 7% difference in the few contested counties that decided the election. Again, fraud was rampant.
Pony Soldier wrote: I understand the concept just fine, thank you. You just laid out the perfect argument for the electoral college. 527 counties.... 17% went for Biden. That is by far the lowest number in history. That tells me that voter fraud was rampant in big cities, but we already know that.
Actually, no, we don't "know" that. You "believe" that there was voter fraud. Some day, you're going to have to let it go and stop believing the big lie.
Oh, in case you're wondering what is a "big lie," here's an explanation by historian Heather Cox Richardson, commenting on the legal brief submitted yesterday by Trump's legal team to the Senate.
Trump’s argument has been dismissed in more than 60 court cases, so there is plenty of evidence to conclude that it is false. But he is doubling down on what scholars of authoritarianism call a “big lie:” that he was the true winner of the 2020 election, and that the Democrats stole it. The big lie, a key propaganda tool that is associated with Nazi Germany, is a lie so huge that no one can believe it is false. If leaders repeat it enough times, refusing to admit that it is a lie, people come to think it is the truth because surely no one would make up anything so outrageous.
“If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated."
"But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They need only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it.”
The last house race was finally called today for the Republican. Republicans went 27 to 0 in contested seats. They won all those seats but Trump lost up-ballot? With a 95% Republican approval rating? Not likely.
Pony Soldier wrote: The last house race was finally called today for the Republican. Republicans went 27 to 0 in contested seats. They won all those seats but Trump lost up-ballot? With a 95% Republican approval rating? Not likely.
Amazing to see, it seems like Republicans usually lose the close ones. Trump's loss? Check out Time's new issue where they show how the world conspired to take down The Donald.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
