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Connecticut 'Blue State' map shows a lot of red
Put some color on a map of Connecticut to show which towns Democrat Dan Malloy won (blue) and which towns Republican Tom Foley won, and a few things stand out.The vast majority of physical geography in Connecticut voted "Republican" in last week's gubernatorial election.
Foley won 126 of Connecticut's towns and cities, and Malloy won 43.
Exclude just three of those communities that Malloy won, and Tom Foley led by a 51 to 47 percent margin.
Those three communities, of course, were the much-talked-about Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven, where Dan Malloy beat Foley by a combined vote of 56,545 to 9,827.
The map exposes what has played out in the Legislature for years ... the agenda, priorities and needs of Connecticut's big cities are far different than its suburban and rural communities.
Malloy, the former mayor of Stamford, has some reassuring to do, perhaps, that he'll be a governor for the entire state, not just an advocate of the cities.
Labels: Dan Malloy, Tom Foley
posted by Register Citizen Staff at
7:15 PM
4 Comments:
I wonder if that map is what the "Achievement Gap" would look like if it were to be mapped out.
RED = Money flowing out of communities
BLUE = Money flowing in to communities
The RED pays for the BLUE
Gee, do acres of grass and rock and dirt vote? Without some measures of population density, that map of yours is worthless.
No grass, rocks, and dirt don't vote. But thousands of illegal aliens who are federal felons do...
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