We all remember those dispiriting maps after the 2004 election showing that just about every piece of land in this country had voted for George W. Bush. Looking back, these graphics were actually pretty important in helping make a three percent victory look like a mandate-conferring landslide. Bush may have won a bare majority but going off of the hallowed one-acre, one-vote principal, he was George Washington.
The map below offers a dot, either red or blue, for every thousands votes given to Bush or Kerry. When the dots become to numerous, they spill into surrounding states i.e, Florida covers up some of Georgia. What's more interesting about the map is noticing that not only did most of Kerry's votes from from those blueish outposts, but so did a gigantic number of Bush's votes.
In a way, that original map overvaluing the contributions of rural voters to Bush's victory should have been annoying to much of his base. They, like the Democratic base, tend to liver in places where a fair number of other people live.
