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  • Jeffrey Phillips

    And what’s the deal with Mississippi & Alabama?

  • http://noappropriatebehavior.blogspot.com/ capello

    Wait a minute… some people STILL support Bush? WTF?

  • whiskeygirl

    Nice to see that some states are getting smarter.

  • Marcus

    Interesting. I wonder how Pres. Bush’s 2 terms will be looked at in 50 or 100 years…

    Also, what do you think that map would look if kerry/edwards won the election?

  • Jado

    Jersey has at least 26%??!!??!?!???

    No freakin’ way, man. They ain’t talked to anyone I talk to. We may be a Dem state, but even the conservatives here (and we are legion, if powerless) think he has screwed the pooch.

    3 more years, and the Neocon movement will be officially killed. The stupid bastards.

  • http://www.eighthourlunch.com Eight Hour Lunch

    I hate to admit it, but Utah are pretty much the same state, so no surpises there…

  • http://skywesterncrooked.blogspot.com fayrene

    Nice to see that Texas is a minty green.

  • http://penn.typepad.com Leah

    another WTF is aimed at Washington. I wish they’d split it up into Eastern WA versus Western WA. Then, I think you’d get the purpley eastern part and the dark freakin’ blue Western part like it actually is.

  • http://www.ransom-note-typography.com Jon Deal

    And, though Wyoming is red (or is it pink? dusty rose, perhaps?), I wonder how much of that “redness” can be accounted for the fact that Dick Cheney is from WY and is still pretty popular there.

    The strangest thing to me is how predominantly poor states (such as MS and AL will vote AGAINST their economics interests and vote for Republicans. Or maybe the Republicans message of “family values” trumps everything.

    I can’t wait to see what happens in ’06. Either the Dems will get their act together or they’ll implode horrifically. Either way it will be fun to watch!

  • http://www.melanhead.com Melanhead

    Okay, if you could further dissect it by county/parish, New Orleans would be the darkest shade of blue representing 0–26. Since Bush visited Mississippi 10x more than New Orleans post Katrina, that beefed up the approval rating. Especially with his promise of immediately rebuilding the Miss. Gov’s house. This took place during Day 2 or 3 of the Superdome Fiasco. Nice.

  • http://bigdlittledmistatruffyandme.blogspot.com/ Karen Rani

    Great. Now I’m craving Cherry Kool Aid.

  • Jenny

    Ah, yes, the blue map. Much easier on the eyes, isn’t it?

  • http://www.julienet.atfreeweb.com/retreat/ juli

    Thank heavens Kansas finally dropped below that 50% mark. Of course if you look at the counties, Douglas county has been at the 0% for six years…

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/72feetabovesealevel/ 72feetabovesealevel

    Washington is another case of voting against your economic self interest as the Purpley Eastern Half is the half that needs farm subsidies, road subsidies, has higher unemployment and needs all the subsidies that entails. The 5th congressional District (the upper half of Eastern Wa including Spokane) sent Tom Foley (D) to DC from 1965 to 1995. So, they used to know a good thing when they saw it. Maybe if the Democrats pulled their heads out of their backsides they could win back the 5th CD.

  • http://www.digitalcatharsis.com the mighty jimbo

    can’t we do a recall election? isn’t there a nice, democrat celebrity who wants to go on leno and announce a candidacy? come on. anyone!

  • http://www.skunkstripe.com Megan

    Blue was always my favorite color, the darker the better.

    Maybe we should all mail him lumps of coal.

  • http://nowseriously.blogspot.com LeafGirl77

    OK. This makes a little more sense.

    I was starting to think you had all lost your minds down there.

    Oh wait.…some are still searching…

  • http://www.somaradio.ca/~jummy/blog jummy

    Now I must be an uberdork but something’s been bothering me: didn’t you used to be able to comment on dooce’s picture portion of her blog? Is there still a way to leave comments? Am I having delucinations again? Wonderful adoring public of blurbodoocery, please respond!

  • jtt

    hey jummy — dooce has comments turned off.

  • jtt

    pardon my posting twice in a row but I must say that I am happy to see my home state of SC with at least a little blue. I would, however, prefer dark blue — I suppose that would require moving.

  • http://seriously-silly.blogspot.com Shelli

    Hey, Jon! Wish MN was a little more blue! I thought we used to be considered the Democratic state.

    On another topic, I love the new look of dooce’s site. Your doing? Or Heather’s?

  • http://www.blurbomat.com blurb

    Shelli, maybe in 2006. dooce: Heather designed, I coded.

  • Lindsay

    :D Go New York.

    Awesome job with the coding on Heather’s site Jon, it looks fantastic.

  • http://biggaysam.com Big Gay Sam

    and you know as well as I do that whatever Utah does Idaho follows like a lap dog.

  • http://mihow.com mihow

    Last night, Toby Joe and I watched Left of the Dial on HBO. For those who don’t know about the film, it’s a documentary about the rise and fall and then rise again of Air America Radio. (http://​tinyurl​.com/4swrs). The movie began filming back in March 2004, right before the 2004 Presidential Elections. They show the broadcast staff discussing the upcoming election and how they all KNEW the Democrats were going to win this time around. They’re so convincing, I almost forgot about history.

    So, I’m watching this movie last night, cringing because I obviously know how history plays itself out in the end in spite of how sure Randi Rhodes, Janeane Garofalo and Rachel Maddow are about the Democrats winning. I think back on my own thoughts from that evening. I was absolutely SURE we were going to win that election. I worked for the DNC in Washington D.C. during last year’s election. I was certain we were going to win; it’s easy to know this when other like-minded individuals surround you.

    And then we lost. I remember watching the vector image of our map on every station grow more and more red. That was shocking. (And if you see the movie, you’ll see how shocked the Air America staff was as well.)

    After we lost, I remember thinking, “How the hell could I have been so off on this one?”

    Maybe we’re the ones drinking the Kool Aid. And that thought makes me a little nauseous. So the question is, how do we kick this Kool Aid habit and win the nation back in 2008?

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