Color Values

After catching enough Z's (see earlier post), I mulled over this Red vs. Blue State meme that has taken hold of many bloggers and the media. I think it is complete balderdash, but it makes for cute CG graphics to flash on your TV screen, specifically since red is not an NTSC safe color and bleeds, wavy like, on the cathode tube. Don't worry I'm not going to delve into the meaning about choice of colors, though I'll note that it once was "Better Dead Than Red."

Most graphic artists working with the RGB scale know that red or blue share conversely similar vaules (Blue - RGB: 0;0;255 and Red - RGB 255;0;0) and that if one wants to be precise there are no truly 100% red or blue state. I doubt that there is truly any voting precinct that is 100% either way. That's why I love this graphic below.

Neither Red nor Blue 

In a few hours I can drive to one to the home reddest of rhetoric in the country,Fresno the home of Free Republic.com, and I live in a "Blue State."

The issue as I see it, trusting my gut (which, queerly enough works for Bush, is male intuition) is that this is mainly urban vs. rural voting patterns. Conservative types stay at home. They do not leave their birthplace. It's like a creative brain-drain that cause the the urban areas to flourish and care less about the small town homophobic rhetoric. There is no safety in numbers in a small town...

That's why this Jesus Landpisses me off. It represents a quirk of the Electoral College but not the way the city folk, forced to live with a mixed bag of diversity, tend to vote.

Bonus Questions:
-Were all the absentee ballots counted?

-Were all the provisional ballots counted?

-Were voting machines moved to the rural areas in detriment to the urban areas?

-Do you feel that you vote was counted?

Please let me know!



(Thanks to BoingBoing for images)