Billionaires trying to buy our elections through the supreme court ruling, "corporations are people."

[Kasz216]

theprof00 said:

Kasz216 said:

theprof00 said:
Just looked at that electoral map, why is it that without any states changing hands this election is swung 14 votes toward republicans?

US Census.

In the 2010 census Republican states had a population boom in comparison to Democratic ones... partially because due to the GFC, Republican states are actually doing a lot better job and economics wise comparativly then before the GFC.

I looked this up (http://www.270towin.com/blog/electoral-college/electoral-votes-in-2012) and found a preview of increases and decreases back in feb 2008 that is very accurate to the 2010 numbers, so I wouldn't say it was predominantly affected by gfc or "who was doing better than whom post gfc", since the numbers were known so far back.

Guess there weren't enough years to reflect in the data yet.  Guess that makes sense.  Was only 2 out of 10.

  Either way, there has been something of a big increase ever since republican states have been able to turn things around quicker.

Guess that'll show more in 2020.  Not that it matters, since migration generally means a migration of people, and not their polticial stances.