Something pretty damn amazing I just discovered about the Mankato area
I spent the winter writing songs about getting better:
I recently embarked on one of my most ambitious projects yet, to calculate how every legislative district in Minnesota voted in 2004 with the Bush/Kerry numbers. The first one I did of course was District 23, my own district. The numbers I got were actually pretty shocking. To explain the districts, in Minnesota the state is divided into 67 Senate district. Each district is then divided in half, each half being a House district, and labeled by the number and then an A or B.
Anyway, the numbers:
23A (North Mankato + St. Peter + rurals) - Bush 50.82%/Kerry 47.96%
23B (Mankato proper + a few crappy rural/suburban areas) - Kerry 54.14%/Bush 44.29%
And the district as a whole: Kerry 51.09%/Bush 47.51%
And the state of Minnesota as a whole: Kerry 51.09%/Bush 47.61%
Seriously, that closeness is almost erie.
Bellwether district? It'll definitely be interesting to compare the Klobuchar/Kennedy numbers to the numbers statewide. But I was pretty shocked by those numbers, I never had any clue I lived somewhere THAT close to the state as a whole.
I spent the winter writing songs about getting better:
Wow, and this is a district just to the west:
25: Kerry 51.10%/Bush 47.50%
Just .01% off for each candidate in a bordering district!
13/67 done so far by the way. I just realized how much hell it is to do those non-Duluth districts in St. Louis county...
Nym90:
That is quite amazing it would be that close of a match, literally matching the Kerry percentage to the nearest hundreth of a percent.
I reckon that's close enough that your vote alone might have been the one to put it at even parity.
I spent the winter writing songs about getting better:
Kerry got 21,955 votes, so no.
Anyone one precinct though could've made the difference.
nclib:
What were the results for the city of Mankato? (it sounds like it's pretty liberal)
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