Friday, November 16, 2012

The United Grapes of America

What's red and blue, and purple all over?  The United Grapes of America.
(For those of you who remember the "Alexander the Grape" jokes.)

The electoral map (cartogram, actually) that is much more reflective of the reality of the American populace than the silly and misleading Mercator-projection (?) geographical map they show us all the time.  Check out the link.  Many other interesting variations.


http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2012/ 
Posted by The Polemicist (Jim Kavanagh) at 11/16/2012 04:11:00 PM
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  1. JKavNovember 17, 2012 at 11:36:00 AM EST

    See Cenk Uygur's excellent article on this at http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/12-6

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