MooPig We Love Maps Department :: "Election maps"

The 2012 Election :: Maps to Gander
Retrieved by Pat Darnell  |  Dec 31, 2012  |  Bryan TX

[Map LINK] Blue is Obama, Red is Republican ...

Election maps: What can we learn from Maps? Cartography is not dead? Maybe. The captions from the web page say this:

" ... The explanation for this apparent paradox, as pointed out by many people, is that the map fails to take account of the population distribution. It fails to allow for the fact that the population of the red states is on average significantly lower than that of the blue ones. The blue may be small in area, but they represent a large number of voters, which is what matters in an election.

We can correct for this by making use of a cartogram, a map in which the sizes of states are rescaled according to their population (ibid.)... "

   'via Blog this'

As you can see, the states have been stretched and squashed, some of them substantially, to give them the appropriate sizes, though it's done in such a way as to preserve the general appearance of the map, so far as that's possible. On this map there is now clearly more blue than red.

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MooPig's Debate Watch :: "Comments From the Street"

Retrieved by Pat Darnell  |  Oct 23, 2012  |  Bryan TX

[Picture LINK] ...  "WASHINGTON, — You watched the conventions, you’ve been bombarded by political ads, you’ve seen the candidates umpteen times on the evening news, and you may have even heard President Obama and Mitt Romney speak from the stump in person. And in the last couple of weeks you have seen the polls in swing states shift dramatically in favor of President Obama.
Now with less than a few weeks before Election Day, November 6, comes that watershed moment, the Presidential Debates. It can be make or break time for a candidate, especially for Mitt Romney, who has had a bad few weeks. ... "

From the STREETS ...
Jason Williams
We also don't have many horses and bayonets *dead*.....
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Kevin Hendrix Have u seen anyone as slimy and slippery as Mitt???
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Gina Moore-Sanders And we have these ships that go underwater that are called nuclear submarines!
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Scott Hite So telling a republiCorp "fuck you and the horse you rode in on" is actually feasible?
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Mario Diaz do we still have those cool looking powdered wigs??
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Eric OccupyChicago Roberts Can you believe that conservatives are saying stupid shit like "the marines still use bayonets and horses"....apparently they do not know that fewer/less does not mean none. I also heard one saying that ships don;t go under the water...only submarines...I am amazed at the stupidity of people on the right. Can they really be that fucking stupid? Or is ti just show?
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Khadijah Fakhrid-Deen and we have these aircraft carriers that planes land on lol
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Mario Diaz no they really are that stupid
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Eric OccupyChicago Roberts Something i did learn tonight. The Army apparently stopped doing bayonet training in 2010. I remeber my bayonet training when i was in the Army. Fun stuff. Nothing like shredding dummies with a slashing weapon...w00t!
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Mario Diaz they'd eat shit if you told them it was pudding
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Gina Moore-Sanders @Eric OccupyChicago -- He's trying to bring back betamax, too.
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Earl Lewis Romney spent half this debate and was agreed with obama....i can't stand his flip flopping behind
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Eric OccupyChicago Roberts ROFL Gina!
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Eric OccupyChicago Roberts The final CNN/ORC post-debate poll shows 48% of respondents who watched the third presidential debate thought President Barack Obama won the event, compared to 40% who thought Mitt Romney won.
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Gina Moore-Sanders Well this group supports Romney >> http://cavalrymenforromney.com/
cavalrymenforromney.com
cavalrymenforromney.com
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Eric OccupyChicago Roberts 40% think Romney won? WTF drugs are these people taking? I want some.
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Earl Lewis i'd vote for mitt if he said something smart...lol
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Eric OccupyChicago Roberts Whitehouse bought that Gina...
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Earl Lewis I can't vote for a candidate whose own state isn't voting for him....HOWS THAT FOR A FACT!!!!
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Eric OccupyChicago Roberts You have nothing to fear Earl...he won't ever say anything smart.
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Mario Diaz i wouldnt wait on that bus Earl
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Gina Moore-Sanders There are no smart ones in that multiple personality disorder of his... Ann Coultergiest did call Obama a "retard"
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Earl Lewis HAS ANYONE NOTICED THE REPUBLICANS GET AN INCOMPETENT IDIOT TO PUT IN FRONT OF THE TV EVERY FEW YEARS. ROMNEY 2012, PALIN 2009, BUSH....ENOUGH SAID
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Gina Moore-Sanders You know @Earl that does take one talented to throw away all that kind of money, but I guess they're betting on the people being stupid or force the change in voting to where smart people can't vote.
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Kalik K Crick From the same CNN poll 25 said they will vote for Romney and 24 said they'll vote for Obama. 50% no difference..
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Scott Hite I hear they've got Buffalo soldiers too. We will invade Iran on a blazing herd of buffalos.
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Kalik K Crick Romney 2012
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Patrick Darnell Robmoney: "Well, if I can't screw it, or throw money at it, it's not worth my time...."
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MooPig's Inflated Resume Department :: "The Gifted Liar"

The End of Times will be led by the "Most Gifted" of Liars...
Snagged by Pat Darnell | Sep 30, 2012 | Bryan TX

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Matt Taibbi Reveals How Romney Made His Fortune -- It Ain't Pretty, and He Shouldn't Be Proud of It | Alternet: "This is the plain, stark reality that has somehow eluded America’s top political journalists for two consecutive presidential campaigns:" ( Amy Goodman, Matt Taibbi. Aug 31, 2012. LINK. retrieved from HERE)

'via Blog this'

" ... Mitt Romney is one of the greatest and most irresponsible debt creators of all time," Taibbi writes. He goes on to say, "In the past few decades, in fact, Romney has piled more debt onto more unsuspecting companies, written more gigantic checks that other people have to cover, than perhaps all but a handful of people on [planet] Earth."

Writes Taibbi in August issue of Rolling Stone: " ... Mitt Romney is no tissue-paper man. He's closer to being a revolutionary, a backward-world version of Che or Trotsky, with tweezed nostrils instead of a beard, a half-Windsor instead of a leather jerkin. His legendary flip-flops aren't the lies of a bumbling opportunist – they're the confident prevarications of a man untroubled by misleading the nonbeliever in pursuit of a single, all-consuming goal. Romney has a vision, and he's trying for something big: We've just been too slow to sort out what it is, just as we've been slow to grasp the roots of the radical economic changes that have swept the country in the last generation. ..." (Taibbi, Matt. Aug 29, 2012. LINK. Rolling Stone)

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http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/matt-taibbi-reveals-how-romney-made-his-fortune-it-aint-pretty-and-he-shouldnt-be?akid=9312.251800.zISLSr&rd=1&src=newsletter702836&t=3
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-20120829
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-20120829

Tool Shelf with Schmitty and Billy

TOOL SHELF coming in May 2008
MooPig is proud to announce a new guest writer to the family of MooPig Bloggers... She apprenticed in Italy, and moved to USA in 1979. She has a range that most carpenters only can wish for.

Her name Schmitty, tells a story all by its own. Her crew loves her and will basically follow her into a chemical fire.

Joining her is the home grown Billy "Broad Butt" Budd. He will be teaming up with their carpentry exposes. He is nervous because he only has one forefinger, and typing is a problem. But he promised to "bring his own sawhorse."

Look for articles creeping into our already beloved blogg, and look forward to more entertaining reads as we continue on mission to explain everything.
Editors MooPig Wisdom