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hmmm......this is a tough one. political or non-political?

Political.  And looking at this again, I colored West Virginia wrong it should be Dem >80%.  And here's a hint:  Red means liberal and blue means conervative.  Not necessarily Republican and Democrat.

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Here's a hint while it is political, it doesn't have to do with the Presidency, a bit of research may be required, and the map was no longer applicable in January 2005.

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Here's a hint while it is political, it doesn't have to do with the Presidency, a bit of research may be required, and the map was no longer applicable in January 2005.

Oh easy!
dark red = two democratic senators
light red = split
light blue = split
dark blue = two republican senators

Close, but what do the percentages mean, and why did I choose red for some splits and blue for others

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Here's a hint while it is political, it doesn't have to do with the Presidency, a bit of research may be required, and the map was no longer applicable in January 2005.

Something to do with the last Senate, presumably.

Although the color scheme (percentage-wise) beats me.

Yeah it's the last Senate.  It has to with liberal/conservative rather than Rep/Dem (I think I mentioned earlier that WV should be red not blue)

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Yeah,  I'd guess its the collective ratings for both of each states' senators (from the last Senate) from the ACU or somesuch.

Yeah it's a composite of the ACU ratingsl

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Non-political.  Red/blue are arbitary, but gray is not.

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Does it have to do with 1992 or 1996?

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Hmm...I notice the percentages are still the same

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has to do with this thread.

Welcome to the forum, antoehr Georgia libertarian!  Anyway, maybe a composite of all the maps on here so far (if so, nice work)

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DEM - 212
GOP - 326

A trend between 2000 and 2004 vs. the national average?

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What do they red states represent?  Blue?

It certainly looks like a population of some sort.

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What do they red states represent?  Blue?

Red states are the 13th largest, the blue states are the rest?

It doesn't look like it since AZ, IN, MD and TN are included while VA, MA and GA ar enot.

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What do they red states represent?  Blue?

Red states are the 13th largest, the blue states are the rest?

It doesn't look like it since AZ, IN, MD and TN are included while VA, MA and GA ar enot.

This is not the easiest one!  Keep tryin'!

Is it non-political or political?

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Apolitical...not the fewest no. of states...y'all, think smaller than states!

States that contain the top 20 largest cities in the U.S.  I was shocked to see Charlotte and Memphis are more heavily populated than Boston

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If you add the overall vote totals of the two years?

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U.S. in 2008 if the trends from 2000-2004 where continued in the same pattern but doubled from 2004-2008?

Nope.  Take a look at the electoral votes to get the decade.

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U.S. in 2008 if the trends from 2000-2004 where continued in the same pattern but doubled from 2004-2008?

Nope.  Take a look at the electoral votes to get the decade.

My best guess would be that this is what 1996 would have looked like, had Perot recieved the same percentages he did in 1992.  Perot's inflated totals come off of the totals of the winner of each state.

Good guess, but it only has to do with 1992.

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U.S. in 2008 if the trends from 2000-2004 where continued in the same pattern but doubled from 2004-2008?

Nope.  Take a look at the electoral votes to get the decade.

My best guess would be that this is what 1996 would have looked like, had Perot recieved the same percentages he did in 1992.  Perot's inflated totals come off of the totals of the winner of each state.

Good guess, but it only has to do with 1992.

Perot takes 5% of the winner of each state/CD in the 1992 election.

99% correct...instead of going to Perot it goes to the 3rd place candidate (I think the only state it effects is ME)

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Another "Random" map:



Blue: 271
Red: 267

Blue states founded before 1825, red states afterwards.

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Here's a curveball:



Red: 274
Blue: 264

Something about population densities?

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1992 map, w/Perot votes split evenly.

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Is it continuing the trend started between the 1952 and 1956 elections?

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Is it continuing the trend started between the 1952 and 1956 elections?

Wow, you get a lot of bonus points in my book.  Yeah, I took the 1956 Republican results in a state, and divided it by the 1952 result.  Then, I took the trend number and multiplied it by the 1956 results to get 1960, then again and again and again for each following year.  I only did this with the Republicans.  I just pretended that Democrats and Republicans were the only candidates, so if the Republicans didn't win it, the Democrats would.  That acoc**nts for the distortion in South Carolina and Mississippi (Republicans percent dropped in 1956 because of unpledged electors).

Wow, that really provides some interesting results.