Yeah, a trip to Delusionville. Does someone pay you to spread these falsehoods?
On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Curley McLain via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > The founders had inspired genius. (most would argue divinely inspired > genius) > > If I had to guess, There were probably 2 million votes in LA county that > were not legal votes (illegal alien, double votes, etc) Take those away > and maybe DJT won LA county. Wouldn't that be a trip! > >> Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> November 27, 2016 at 10:06 AM >> This is an interesting map that shows geographic distribution of the vote >> winners by county: >> >> http://i0.wp.com/metrocosm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/ >> election-2016-county-map.png?w=600 >> >> The article with it is somewhat interesting but seems to have a bit of >> bias: >> >> http://metrocosm.com/election-2016-map-3d/ >> >> I saw a comment from someone that said if the blue areas prevailed it >> would be sorta like a "Hunger Games" kind of situation where the elite >> metro areas basically controlled the rest of the country, the residents of >> whom would basically have no say in the matter if not for the electoral >> college arrangement. >> >> The article says: >> >> As with most maps that represent information using color, red/blue >> election maps are great for communicating categorical data (in this case, >> /which candidate won county X?/). But they don’t do a very good job >> conveying magnitude <http://metrocosm.com/category/cartograms/> (/how >> important is county X compared to other counties?/). >> >> For example, *L.A. County <http://metrocosm.com/how-many >> -u-s-cities-can-you-fit-inside-tokyo/>* alone has a population of over >> *10 million*. That’s more than the combined population of 10 entire states. >> *Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Montana, Delaware, South Dakota, >> Alaska, North Dakota, Vermont,* and *Wyoming* together have a total >> population of just over *9 million*? >> >> Which says that LA County could basically be the key to a Clinton "win" >> since the margin is like 1.5M votes at this point, and I think her margin >> was larger than that in LA County? And LA County would basically negate >> the votes of 10 states that comprise a very large geographic area though >> low-density. >> >> --FT >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
