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<DIV>When are they going to shut up and talk about something real, something of
substance?</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Won't happen, real doesn't sell because the public dosn't
want to hear it...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Dave</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=sdmheit@verizon.net
href="mailto:sdmheit@verizon.net">Shirley Heit</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, November 03, 2005 8:46
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [GCFL-discuss] Jackson on
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Didn't the press make up the RED states and Blue
states just for something to write about ??</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dave</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Exactly Dave. There is no real substance to this division. Every
presidential election in our history, the electoral votes of each state have
gone for one candidate or another. In 1860, four candidates each got some
electoral votes. In some elections, three, in most recent elections, two.
Every election since television coverage began, networks have color coded
their maps. Somehow, after the 2000 election, "red" and "blue" became not only
convenient color codes on election night, but the definition of the thought
process of every person in each state. Pure garbage.</DIV>
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<DIV>Looking at the numbers, Kerry received more votes from the southeastern
states than from all of New England combined. There are some 3.5 million
people in New York who voted for Bush. But the southern states are "red
states" and New York is a "blue state." (One of those New York voters is a
<STRONG>green</STRONG>Bubble). I live in a "blue" state. Why? Because 10,000
more voters voted one way than voted the other. Some 6% of those voters saw
fit to re-elect George Bush AND to re-elect the only senator who voted against
the USA Patriot Act. Massachusetts somehow managed to elect both Mitt Romney
and John Kerry. Pennsylvania consistently votes for Democrats for president, a
majority of its congressional delegation are Democrats, and it has
persistently elected two Republican senators, one militantly pro-life and the
other militantly pro-choice, who each get out to support the other at election
time.</DIV>
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<DIV>We each have lots of reasons for voting the way we do, and we as a people
mix and match all over the place in the final vote counts. The same could be
said of most of the cultural "trends" and fads that the media likes to
highlight. Religion, taxes, economic development, environment, you get all
types in all states. You can't even stereotype states by their allegiance at
the time of the civil war. There were copperheads (southern sympathizers) in
New York, Indiana, Ohio. There were parts of Alabama where nobody in a
confederate uniform dared to go for the entire war (Jones County being the
best known).</DIV>
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<DIV>So, I get an immediate reflex whenever someone talks about "red states"
and "blue states." There is no such thing. When are they going to shut up and
talk about something real, something of substance?</DIV>
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<DIV>Siarlys</DIV>
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