Republican landslide in Amazon book vote

[rocks 494]

A map created by Amazon tracking the bestselling political books in the US state by state shows that conservative titles are outselling liberal books virtually everywhere – suggesting that if Americans' voting choices are linked to their book-buying habits, the Democrats are in for a tough ride this November.

Amazon.com's election heat map, which is updated daily, lays out readers' book preferences in every state, colouring a state blue or red depending on if it has higher liberal or conservative book sales. At present, across the whole country, 56% of purchases are "red" books – titles such as Obama's America: Unmaking the American Dream, Fool Me Twice: Obama's Shocking Plans for the Next Four Years Exposed and Republican VP candidate Paul Ryan favourite Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Just 44% are "blue" books, titles which include Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States and The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future.

Only six states are selling more liberal books bought than conservative titles: Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maryland, New York and DC. DC is the bluest of the blue states, with 78% of political purchases coming in blue, topped by Barack Obama's own two titles, Dreams From My Father and The Audacity of Hope.

One state, Pennsylvania, is exactly equally split between red and blue reading, with the rest of America – even the traditionally liberal California – opting for more conservative choices. The "reddest" state is currently Mississippi, where 72% of purchases are conservative titles, topped by Edward Klein's The Amateur, which argues that "Obama's toxic combination of incompetence and arrogance have run our nation and his presidency off the rails", and Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln.

Obama can comfort himself, however, with the fact that his own title, The Audacity of Hope, is currently trouncing his rival Mitt Romney's No Apology: The Case for American Greatness, with 64% of Americans buying it compared with Romney's book. Vice president Joe Biden is doing less well: just 6% of readers have opted for his Promises to Keep, with 94% preferring Paul Ryan's Young Guns.

Amazon is making its political book classifications based on book promotional material and customer tags, and is calculating percentages daily for each state, based on shipping addresses for purchases. "Book sales by geography always have interesting things to say about our states, and an election season is a particularly good time to use this data to help customers follow the changing political conversation across the country," said Chris Schluep, senior editor for Amazon.com books. "But books aren't votes, so a map of book purchases may reflect curiosity as much as agreement."

If you click on the "Amazon.com's election heat map" link, you can see the top 5 red/blue books for each state.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Next step for Republicans is to use the amazon heat map as the official election results. Just wait.

[rocks 494]

Next step for Republicans is to use the amazon heat map as the official election results. Just wait.

Mississippi was at 72%, that's probably quite accurate! On another note, it's sad how many people are buying Atlas Shrugged now.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Next step for Republicans is to use the amazon heat map as the official election results. Just wait.

BAWWAAA Great Idea. Online pools are almost never accurate to any degree. The affluent usually have much more computer access and are more likely to go to such sites.

Gee I sound like a liberal... :bonk:

[rocks 494]

BAWWAAA Great Idea. Online pools are almost never accurate to any degree. The affluent usually have much more computer access and are more likely to go to such sites.

Gee I sound like a liberal... :bonk:

It's true. Paul Ryan advertising Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged is probably not helping either.

[Teddy B 17,251]

Looks like not even Amazon.com can turn my blue state of Mass to red.

[DaveE 178]

Since these folks started they have never been wrong: A main factor is that they don't worry about popular vote.

Analysis of election factors points to Romney win, University of Colorado study says. A University of Colorado analysis of state-by-state factors leading to the Electoral College selection of every U.S. president since 1980 forecasts that the 2012 winner will be Mitt Romney.

What is striking about our state-level economic indicator forecast is the expectation that Obama will lose almost all of the states currently considered as swing states, including North Carolina, Virginia, New Hampshire, Colorado, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida,” said Kenneth Bickers of CU-Boulder.

Their model correctly predicted all elections since 1980, including two years when independent candidates ran strongly, 1980 and 1992. It also correctly predicted the outcome in 2000, when Al Gore received the most popular vote but George W. Bush won the election.

Of course VJ experts will know better lol.

University of Colorado Study

[mawilson 2,133]

And they say Republicans don't read.

"The Roots of Obama's Rage"

LOL

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

That is only because most liberals can't read, write, or work. It does not stop them from voting. Only people voting for Al Gore could not figure out the ballots in Florida, remember.