Comments on: Two Party Statistics http://chartporn.org/2009/10/20/two-party-statistics/ data visualizations and charts you just gotta love. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:27:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: justme http://chartporn.org/2009/10/20/two-party-statistics/comment-page-1/#comment-677 justme Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:12:51 +0000 http://chartporn.org/2009/10/20/two-party-statistics/#comment-677 Actually, David, it differed network to network before 2000. Some would have it one way, and others would have it reversed. Somehow, magically, everybody agreed all of a sudden that red=Republican and blue=Democrat. I much preferred it before. Actually, David, it differed network to network before 2000. Some would have it one way, and others would have it reversed. Somehow, magically, everybody agreed all of a sudden that red=Republican and blue=Democrat.

I much preferred it before.

]]> By: Keith http://chartporn.org/2009/10/20/two-party-statistics/comment-page-1/#comment-674 Keith Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:51:19 +0000 http://chartporn.org/2009/10/20/two-party-statistics/#comment-674 I wonder how much this chart reflects the modern parties. They are, of course, not so unified as all that... Certainly, as a pragmatic, technocratic left libertarian (or as close to that as anything else), I feel left out. I wonder how much this chart reflects the modern parties.

They are, of course, not so unified as all that…

Certainly, as a pragmatic, technocratic left libertarian (or as close to that as anything else), I feel left out.

]]> By: David Driscoll http://chartporn.org/2009/10/20/two-party-statistics/comment-page-1/#comment-668 David Driscoll Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:33:28 +0000 http://chartporn.org/2009/10/20/two-party-statistics/#comment-668 Red was liberal and blue was right wing in America until the 2000 election. Cronkite described the electoral map of the 1972 election as "an ocean of blue, from sea to shining sea" after McGovern won MA & DC and lost 49 states. Red was liberal and blue was right wing in America until the 2000 election.

Cronkite described the electoral map of the 1972 election as “an ocean of blue, from sea to shining sea” after McGovern won MA & DC and lost 49 states.

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