All of Kerry’s electoral votes came from the more intelligent half of the country. In fact, according the chart presented there, the states with the 16 highest IQs all went to Kerry. Make of that what you will.
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Boing Boing has continued to bring up some great links, post-election. My Modest Proposal: The U.S.A.R. is a “modest proposal” to split the USA into USA Blue and USA Red (look at an election map to see the split). This about somes it up:
Then the new USAR (United States of America Red) can ban books, repeal civil rights, persecute gays and have all the wars they like. They want prayer in schools? More power to them. They can ban abortion and post the Ten Commandments in every federal building in their country. Bring back slavery, if they want. We’ll be free to live with our like-minded countrymen who believe in science, modernism, tolerance, religion as a personal choice, and truly want limited government intrusion in our personal lives.
More commentary, post-Kerry concession. And, there’s the inevitable claim that Kerry won. And, there are some different takes on the red/blue map that show that things were closer than a red/blue map would make them out to be. Tim Bray also redesigned North America, but only an engineer would work something out the way he did it. It’s too neat and logical. Politics is messy stuff.
Yep… this sums things up pretty well: Boing Boing: Kerry concedes. At least I live in the United States of Canada (look toward the bottom of the posting).
I’m not generally one given to “I told you so”s, but I’ll make an exception in this case. I’m projecting that in 4 years, I’m going to be saying “I told you so” to the 51% of voters that chose to re-elect Bush. It’s hard to imagine that Bush will truly rise up over the atrocious record of the past four years.
Meanwhile, I wasn’t surprised to see this: Bush Wins White House, Reaches Out to Foes
Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) said Bush’s win by 3.5 million votes over Kerry was “a mandate” for his second term agenda for the future.
Yes, once again the administration is claiming a mandate. It was absolutely ridiculous before, because Bush didn’t even win the popular vote in 2000. Now, it’s not quite as bad… but winning by 3% is not a mandate. Look at history. Reagan, Nixon, Johnson… these folks could claim that they had a mandate from the people, because they demolished their opponents.
On the flip side, their claim of mandate can come from the fact that the Republicans have extended their majority in Congress. That will certainly be part of the “I told you so”s that will come later.
I forgot to pay attention to this yesterday. The Redskins lost their game to Green Bay. Since 1944, whenever the Redskins have lost their game before the election, the incumbent lost as well. Sure, that’s a meaningless bit of trivia, but at least the outcome of the game matches up what I’d like to see.
