Richardo
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Thu Oct-09-08 07:31 PM
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The power of positive imagery: the 1964 Electoral Map |
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Edited on Thu Oct-09-08 07:34 PM by Richardo
If you can visualize it, you can achieve it....Ommmmmmmmmmmmmm :hippie: "Past is prologue, Gwen" - Joe Biden, October 2008 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/9/92/20080625220526!1964_Electoral_Map.png :patriot:
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Thu Oct-09-08 07:38 PM
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1. That is fucking beautiful |
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I think that's the first time I've ever seen the 1964 results laid out in modern topology.
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Richardo
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Thu Oct-09-08 07:45 PM
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5. Notice how much the votes per state have changed - NY was still > CA |
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The PNW was a low-vote zone. Pretty interesting.
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Thu Oct-09-08 11:13 PM
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12. Heh. Minnesota -- 10 in '64, 10 today. |
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Thu Oct-09-08 07:38 PM
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2. That must have been one fun election night |
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And the last true Democratic landslide in history.
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Thu Oct-09-08 07:41 PM
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3. I really wish we could figure out a way to get Texas back into play... lol |
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If Texas was a Battleground state, we'd have every election in the bag!
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Thu Oct-09-08 07:44 PM
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4. Put a Texan on the ticket |
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Who knows, maybe Senator Rick Noriega will run in 2016.
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Richardo
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Thu Oct-09-08 07:46 PM
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6. A real Texan, not some Connecticut Yankee transplant |
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Thu Oct-09-08 11:28 PM
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15. That was what I was thinking |
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I think he's being groomed for higher office.
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Thu Oct-09-08 07:48 PM
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I don't think we have any choice but to try, as they will gain 3 or 4 EV's.
Be patient. The Hispanic population is only going up in that state.
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Thu Oct-09-08 10:32 PM
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8. Wow, that's a work of art. |
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Complete with a matching Hawaii and Alaska!
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Thu Oct-09-08 10:47 PM
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9. Okay -- That blows my whole "the south was Democratic until the 70s" stereotype |
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I guess that damn negro-lover :eyes: was just too much for many of those deep southerners to take.
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Richardo
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Thu Oct-09-08 10:56 PM
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11. That was the genesis of Nixon's "southern strategy" |
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The south WAS overwhelmingly Democratic at the time, but only as a relic of Civil War antipathy to the GOP as the Party of Lincoln - they were virtual if not actual Dixiecrats, and included Jesse Helms, Phil Gramm, and others of that ilk.
I think 1964 showed Nixon and the GOP that the South could be 'turned' if they emphasized the 'cultural' (read 'racial') commonality between the right wing of the GOP and the segregationists.
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Thu Oct-09-08 10:49 PM
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Thu Oct-09-08 11:14 PM
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Inspiring thanks for posting :thumbsup:
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Thu Oct-09-08 11:27 PM
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Even Utah. Tennessee. Kentucky. FLORIDA.
*sigh*
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