Ever wonder why news organizations paint political contests as horse races? That’s because it leads to prognostications (the more controversial the better) and that leads to eyeballs.
But once again, Mark Newman, Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan has created election maps that are not “winner take all” (zero-sum game) manifestations of American public opinion.
But even this chart overstates the division because it doesn’t take population into account. There are more folks in King County Washington, for example, than Terrell County Georgia. But this chart doesn’t take that into account.
The rhetoric that demonizes “liberal” universities has its genesis in a truth: university environments tend to be more liberal. (Lots of ways to explain that other than pointing fingers at liberal arts colleges.) From the CS702 blog:
But we really are fundamentally more alike than different.
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