Coolest election maps ever....check this out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_2004







I love the first one, it's psychadelic. Happy viewing.

I dawned on me that Democrats love Mountains and Water because
the closer you get to either one of the two the bluer it gets.

Ever notice how wonderful it is to be near the mountains, or near large bodies of water? It gives us a chance to be thankful for the gift of our natural environment, and hopefully it dawns on us that we are not the center of the universe.

That first map is kind of wild. :)

Very fitting for this election, imo.

I saw a butterfly and then a yapping little dog.

I like the maps but still a little too red overall.

but all in all, it shows that there is not quite the support for * that he likes to think that he has.

Some interesting notes on that page. For example, here's his Man-Date:

<snip>
Bush won with the smallest margin of victory for a sitting president in U.S. history in terms of the percentage of the popular vote. (Bush received 2.8% more than Kerry; the closest previous margin won by a sitting President was 3.2% for Woodrow Wilson in 1916.) In terms of absolute number of popular votes, his victory margin (just under 3.4 million votes) was the smallest of any sitting President since Harry S. Truman in 1948.

<snip>
The large turnout enabled each major-party candidate to set a record. Bush received the largest number of votes of any Presidential candidate in U.S. history. Kerry, however, also received more votes than any candidate in any previous U.S. election, though not as many as Bush in this election.
<snip>

It's supposed to show population "bulges" as well as county-by-county voting patterns.

:)