Re: Republican Lies

[levien@cc.gatech.edu (Levien de Braal)]

Hello all,

Nathan Laredo <nlaredo@transmeta.com> wrote:
>>http://www.shorty.com/~robbie/mandatemap.gif
>Where'd you find this?  Are there higher resolution versions of this?
>Would make a nice wall decoration for the gore-centric location I'm
>currently living in because that's where the cool jobs are...

All the picture shows is that in Urban areas Gore voters outnumber the Bush
voters, and that in rural areas the situation is reversed. Yes, rural areas
take up more space on a map of the USA. Duh.

This picture makes as much of a statement if one were to add the surface area
of Antarctica to the picture colored green for Nader, in the case that the few
American scientists that live there ended up voting for him instead of any of
the other party candidates. To someone who doesn't know where the people live
it would seem Nader got an enormous cut of the votes.

Should I remind you that it's the people that actually cast votes, not the
square miles? You might as well put up a red-colored picture of the entire
globe, since the overseas ballots are presumably overall in favor of Bush.

It's meaningless, and intended as a pro-Bush/anti-Gore statement it shows
ignorance.

Levien
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