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Originally posted by garett
There's a couple things you need to realize about those graphs:
1) The red simply means Bush won in those areas. It doesn't mean that the vast majority of the area supports him .. just enough for him to have had the win.
2) The blue areas, and this is shown on the 3d graphs, represent the most densely populated areas in the US. So if you consider the populations of the areas .. any small piece of blue area makes up for a huge area of red.
Ultimately Bush won .. but it was still close. I don't know exactly how accurate those graphs are .. but assuming they are accurate, it's solely first instinct to go "wow the majority of the US supports Bush" .. no it doesn't .. the graph just represents regions .. not populations.
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what part of winning don't you understand????