Limbaugh's map is interesting in a cultural sense, but doesn't indicate much about who should be considered to have won the election.

It is not unusual for rural people to be more politically conservative. The same is true in Canada and elsewhere. A cynic might well say that this is partly because rural people are more isolated from different races, different cultures, and different possibilities, and therefore tend to be less accomodating to anything they perceive as a "threat" to their chosen status quo and their accustomed way of life.

In fact, even someone who isn't cynical might say that.

The "liberal" vote will always be found in the big cities, in the more cosmopolitan centers.

The US Senate and House of Representatives were very sensibly set up in such a way that one of them is based on representation by population, while the other gives each state an equal voice. Very smart way to organize a government! We could use a setup like that in Canada...it would greatly ease tensions in this country, where Ontario and Quebec basically run the place between them (due to their huge population base), while the other provinces are marginalized and resentful, particulary the western provinces.

Congratulations to the designers of the American Constitution. They got it right in that case.

- LH