Friday, October 10, 2003

Mini essay California results who voted for what? Posted here Friday, October 10, 2003 at 9:01:42 AM     I applaud the statistical anlysis of voting and vote differences that might reveal problems and even manipulations of voting machines. But we must not lose sight of a very major factor in this election. Recall lost in almost all the coastal counties, and Bustamente won in all the bay area counties. It was a rural/ urban split, and our failure to understand this means we do not lead ourselves to a deeper undersanding of what the rural vote has on its mind. My own udersanding is that it does not ike th whole package of urban, large system, ewlfare, tax, corporate, federal power world. What is striking to me is that both the left leaning and right leaning folks agree on the dangers of bigness. The left sees big in terms of military industrial complex, and the right in terms of sate welfare and compulsory education. Both have a common enemy, but project the desire for largeness onto the other. We need to think more deeply about the way in which the urban technical market ysstem is explitative of much of the rural part of the country. Sources for data, the New York Times, an excellent interactive map.   ********