http://www.mcsm.org/mandate3.html
This is the 2000 presidential election map of George W. Bush vs Al Gore, showing the results county-by-county accross the USA.
http://www.darksky.org/images/satelite/usa_lights_small.gif
This link shows the lights of the USA from the view of a satellite.
http://www.esri.com/industries/elections/graphics/results2004_lg.jpg
And, here's another county-by-county map, this one the most revealing, and the funniest, if you ask me. Red is republican, and blue is democrat. It shows very clearly that rural communities vote overwhelmingly republican, and cities tend to vote overwhelmingly democrat. The map includes population density.
As you can see, the conclusion we can draw from this is that the democrats are generally losing the vote of rural-america.
As
>>1 says, I blame this largely on the Gun Issue. If you want the democrats to win, they are going to have to give massive ground to the Gun Rights folks, or else we (I am one of them) intend to continue to hand them defeats.
Write your democrats in office and tell them to stop supporting gun control, or the map will continue to look like that. You can write them at the following locations:
http://www.capwiz.com/nra/dbq/officials/
http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm
Even if you don't give a shit about gun rights, you should do this for the sake of the democratic party, because it clearly has a lot to do with the losses the dems as a party have been experiencing over the last several years.