The Great Presidential Electoral Divide

http://www.politico.com/2012-election/map/#/President/2012/

      This electoral map for the 2012 presidential election shows a clear divide between the west coast and the heavily populated New England and upper mid-west states.  I heard a good explanation on AM870 with Michael Medved earlier today discussing how the electoral votes are determined.  Something I hadn't studied in a long time, but it was good to get the refresher course.  So, each state gets one electoral vote per congressional representative and one for each senator.  The minimum therefore is 3 electoral votes for say, little ole Delaware.  And California is the master with 55 electoral votes.  Each state determines by law how these votes are "cast" each presidential election.  Most all states have a winner take all type system where whichever candidate wins the state overall, then gets all the electoral votes.

     A few states have changed their state law to apportion the electoral votes proportionally by congressional district.  These states are:  Nebraska and Maine.

     Here is a good source that discusses this in depth:  National Archive link

    The wife and I were discussing this because if CA, NY, FL and say PA all had proportional distribution, then Romney would have easily won.  But we also realized quite obviously that the dems would never go for this especially in NY and CA which always go blue.  They have a lock on each state at the federal and state levels. So why would they change a system that gives them the advantage.

     Check out this county by county map of the 2012 election:

http://freedomslighthouse.net/2012-presidential-election-electoral-vote-map/

      The most striking thing about this map to me is the west.  Take a look at Nevada.  Only 2 counties fall out Democrat.  The county in the south is obviously where Las Vegas and Henderson are located.  The vast majority of the population for the state is there and so the popular vote for the entire state goes to Obama even though geographically the state is mostly Republican.  And look at both Oregon and Washington states.  They have a similar issue where the major cities are along the coasts and are majority Democrat.  The east of each state is rural and farming which is typically  conservative and Republican.  But for all these western states of NV, OR, WA and CA, if they had proportional distribution of electoral votes, then Romney wins...maybe.

     Maybe, only because the maps look impressive geographically, but demographically the population centers dominate.  The votes are where the people are, and the people are voting democrat and the democrats are putting socialist policies in place that once entrenched are self perpetuating.  The low population rural, conservative areas can't make headway in either state or federal elections.

     So what happens now.  Well Obama is re-elected and that is a bummer of epic proportions.  The worst is that Obamacare gets fully implemented.  Already companies in the last couple days after the election have been announcing mass layoffs.  Unemployment will skyrocket well above 8% by January if not sooner. Inflation will take off due to way too much printing of money and bad monetary policy.  The stock market has plummeted 431 points in the two days after BHO's re-election and I personally believe that the bottom has not been reached as more bad economic news rolls out.

     Two Americas have essentially been created not just in a philosophical sense, but in a real way that can be seen on the maps above.  Liberals say that the Republican party has gotten more right wing.  But by definition the Republican Party and Conservatism does not change.  We hold to the ideals that are tried and true for liberty and free enterprise.  Obamacare itself being socialized medicine is proof that the democrat party is moving ever further toward the left.  The occupier movement of socialists, communists, anti-Americans, anti-capitalists and anarchists was fully embraced by the democrat party.  That is more proof of their slide to the left.  By this measure the Tea Party Movement is simply a re-establishment of the core beliefs that have always under girdded the Republican Party, but that the party old guard had forgotten.  The 2010 mid-term elections reminded the party leaders why they need to stay true to core values.  Boehner still doesn't get it.

     Do the red counties leave?  Secessionism already failed.  Too many Americans died in our first civil war. Are we heading to another one?  By the map can we avoid it?  If I thought I could get gainful employment in Texas or Louisiana or Kentucky, then I would go in a heartbeat   Los Angeles is the pit of liberal hell on earth.  California is the pit of liberal hell on earth.