2008 election is starting to get a little interesting and of course nasty as well. Because of a slip of a tong and perhaps lower journalism standards in UK, Obama has lost Samantha Power [1] (Obama’s foreign policy adviser and a pulitzer prize winner). Hillary started to scare democratic voters by her 3AM ad [2] (which is expected to bring more support to McCain instead of Hillary, because voters tend to vote republican when they are scared). Also, now that the republicans have secured McCain as their nominee, seems they have started gaming the system by voting democrat [3].
I’ve been following the election results on New York Times lately and noticed a pattern among democrat voters. I like the fact that New York Times provides county breakdown of votes. Let’s take a look at Texas [4] a red state with three major cities (Austin, Houston, and Dallas) Among Texans, Austin is called a blue dot in a red state 🙂 and is the home to UT Austin, a prominent school, taking a look at Texas results map you will notice that around more educated counties, voters tend to vote for Obama (Austin, Dallas and Houston All voted for Obama despite the fact that Hillary won the popular votes). Even in Oklahoma [5] which is a super religious state if you take a look at the map there is only one dot for Obama and that’s Oklahoma county (city of Nichols Hills and Oklahoma county have the highest number of PhD holders in the state of Oklahoma). Now lets take a look at our home state California! [6] you will notice that the north cal (which is supposed to have more people with higher education tends to vote for Obama while southern California supports Hillary possibly) similar patterns can be seen in a highly educated states like Massachusetts (Boston voted for Obama) or Washington
Anyways God bless America and Jesus
By the way, why should I care? 🙂
Refs:
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Power
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcR6enqJZJ8
[3] http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/12/81339/4516/40/474909
[4] http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/results/states/TX.html
[5] http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/results/states/OK.html
[6] http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/results/states/CA.html
