Democratic Underground - Corsi thinks that without Boston, Massachusetts is a strong Red State

I just love media matters because when crack-pots like that Swift Boat idiot Joe Corsi says dumbass stuff, Media Matters is right there to show what an asswipe he is.

As you all may well know, Corsi is going to move to Massachusetts and run against John Kerry for U.S. Senate. Seems he thinks that Massachusetts is this superred state that would vote for Repukes if it wasn't for Boston

"the Bay State may well be ripe for a strong conservative challenge." Corsi wrote: "Get out the map of Massachusetts and look at how much red there is. Take Boston out of the equation and the state has real possibilities even now for inclusion in the Red State category."

This my friends is how Massachusetts voted for Kerry. I never realized I had a blue/red color-blindness because I can't find any red anywhere on this map:

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004//pages/results/states/MA/P/00/map.html

http://mediamatters.org/items/200501280007
Carpetbagger Corsi wrong about Massachusetts voters
WorldNetDaily.com columnist and co-author of the book Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry (Regnery, 2004) Jerome R. Corsi, who has announced his intention to move to Massachusetts as the first step in a planned 2008 campaign for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Kerry, claimed in his January 27 column that the electoral map of Massachusetts shows that "the Bay State may well be ripe for a strong conservative challenge." Corsi wrote: "Get out the map of Massachusetts and look at how much red there is. Take Boston out of the equation and the state has real possibilities even now for inclusion in the Red State category." However, maps of Massachusetts that depict voter preference by locality refute Corsi's assertions.

A county-by-county map of Massachusetts displaying the results from the 2004 presidential election shows that every county in the state voted for Kerry. Rhode Island and Hawaii are the only two other states in which every county voted for Kerry, and Kerry received a higher percentage of the vote (62 percent) in Massachusetts than in any other state. But as Media Matters has noted, a county-by-county map of the U.S. created by Princeton University professor Robert J. Vanderbei more accurately depicts voter preference in the 2004 election. Rather than simply representing a county's voter preference with red (Republican) or blue (Democrat), Vanderbei's map takes into account the percentage of the Democratic and Republican vote in each county, using shades of purple to represent closely contested counties. Vanderbei's map showed that the counties of Massachusetts ranged from deep blue to purple, with a complete absence of red.

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