SAMPLES of info available at two Very Cool Sites!
Chrissy’s Site Bites: http://news.webshots.com/photo/2879001150056011884VxeIBb
Source: http://proximityone.com/cd.htm
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Source: http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/congress.html#list
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Thanks for pointing to those sites, Chrissy. Bookmarked ’em for future ref. I can tell that I could spend quite a while exploring the data!
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Really! I got so absorbed, half my work time just went pfft! Never even got to checking my email yesterday, never mind any of the boring stuff I put off, like housework. LOL
I cross referenced the two maps above to find poor districts with Democrat legislators. looking for legislators’ offices to send “Democrats Play! Taxpayers Pay!” mole food cards.
Arkansas 4 has a really good guy, Blue Dog Democrat who goes home EVERY weekend. He got a fairly crapola score from Progressives for his voting record and voted against O’care. I was going to skip this guy, since he’s really a good man who deserves to stay in office … BUT he’s retiring in 2012.
This district is very borderline. With one exception in the 1990s, they’ve had all Democrat congressmen. BUT they voted 58% for McCain in 2008. And the state has one Dem and one GOP senator. I figured a little swaying to the GOP would be a good thing so sent off the Hawaii one.
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Ark. Congressional District #1 abuts Okla. #2, where pretty-good-guy Dan Boren is our token Democrat congresscritter.
This is leftover old-South Democrat territory. Old-fashioned conservative Democrats (like our friend at HB describes himself). Outside of the major cities, rural Oklahoma was, since statehood, and to some degree in many places I suppose still is, Democrat in local politics, even though the whole state tends to go Republican for Presidents.
Until Henry Bellmon was elected Okla. governor in 1962, there hadn’t been a Republican governor in Oklahoma since statehood (nor a Republican governor throughout the South). You won’t find my dad mentioned in the late, great Mr. Bellmon’s online bios (Wikipedia, OSU), but as a major supporter and organizer of the Republican party in Oklahoma, he was given a whole chapter in Bellmon’s autobio book (Amazon). Can you tell I’m proud Dad had a major hand in changing the Republican party in Oklahoma from loser RINOs to a serious party? In the last Presidential election, Oklahoma was the only state in the country that had every county go for the Republican candidate. (Map)
For Oklahomans and other Suth’r’ners who aren’t Democrat anymore (or as Democrat), it’s as folks like Rick Perry say, the Democrat party left them, not the other way ’round.
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Strong work!
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Thank GOD I have you and other sophisticated Polinators to interpret for me. That’s all I can say. Carry on.
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