Nice graphic from kos: Obama and the battleground states

[BurtWorm]

Change (in one month) we can believe in.

http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/n2OzhnBUVOs/639542

[MadBadger]

1. Big Ten Battleground Polls.

[madaboutharry]

2. Maybe I am stupid, but it seems backwards to me.

Am I missing something? I thought everything should be blue on Oct 23.

[WeDidIt]

3. Everything IS Blue as fo October 23

Only Illinois was Blue on September 19.

[rateyes]

4. Optical illusion. Everything is blue on Oct. 23.

When the tab is white, it shows the polls. The latter poll is shown first.

[bunnies]

5. It *is* blue on Oct 23.

The white tab at the top indicates the active image.

[Schema Thing]

6. I noticed that too. It's tab portion of the graphic throwing you off.

[NYC_SKP]

7. I had the same problem, look again.

When the October tab is white (matches the background of the map) is when you see all blue.

:donut:

[EnviroBat]

8. It is, It's just the tabs are positioned in a strange way.

In software testing, we call that a UI Defect. The tab doesn't indicate clearly what the frame is showing.
It's all good though.

[madaboutharry]

9. I see now.

As some of you know, madaboutharry is easily confused! :eyes:

[BlooInBloo]

11. You're confused about which tab-color means "in front", i bet.

[BurtWorm]

12. You're mistaking the dark tab for the "on view" tab.

The tab you should be looking at is the white one.

[BlooInBloo]

10. WHY CAN'T HE SEAL THE DEAL????

:rofl:

[NightHawk63]

13. Seriously!! Don't you know the polls are tightening

:kick:

[On the Road]

14. Indiana is Strong Obama Now?

Holy shit!

:party: :toast:

[TornadoTN]

16. That is amazing!

I'm not sure its true, mainly because old habits die hard, but its very possible he could carry Indiana!

[Peace Patriot]

15. I think it's not so much the tab colors at the top (indicating date) as the numbers

right under it--"leaning" and so on--which are hard to read and switch too fast. You just start getting a fix on them and they change. Perhaps those numbers should be much bigger, and change to a bright flashing color or something, when the Oct 23 numbers are showing (along with the Oct 23 graphic). The graphic and the numbers just below it change too fast for my eye. You get caught "between" them--first the graphic, then you look below, and it's the OTHER numbers.

Once you DO see what the graphic means, it's very startling--and heartening.

I just hope to heaven that Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia 'TRADE SECRET' CODE programmers aren't busy right now writing the algorhithms for significantly shaving Obama's mandate. I think that's what the Dark Lords are going to do--shave his mandate and commit other crimes to tie his hands (on top of their financial 9/11), and then come back with the machines in 2012, and inflict us with someone worse than Bush and Cheney.

And I hope to heaven that the people of this country do not relent until they have gotten rid of 'TRADE SECRET' vote counting--no matter what appears to happen on Nov 4, that no one--and I mean no one--will be able to verify.