Votes Against the Wall Street Bailout Map
Sep 30th, 200810/3 Update: Map of repackaged Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 from The New York Times
Details on the Republican and Democratic representatives who voted to reject a $700 billion rescue of the financial industry.
From The Electoral Map
The New York Times has a great map of the “NO” votes on the bailout bill yesterday. There’s not really a clear trend since members of both parties and representatives from Cape Cod to Cape Disappointment voted against it.
If we find any pattern, it’s that Members representing financial centers like New York, Chicago and San Francisco supported it, and those from poor urban cores like Detroit and Atlanta opposed it.
But beneath the surface, we can derive a few more clues.
- Graphic from the New York Times
- Accompanying article from the New York Times
- Summary and commentary from the Electoral Map
10/2 Update: Theres more maps breaking out this vote available at http://observationalism.com/2008/10/01/the-geography-of-the-bailout-bill-vote/
Fight the Wall Street Bailout
This bailout is nothing but bad news. There is no real crisis, the market sell of is a result of fear mongering by President Bush
The bill allows for foreign banks to dump all of their bad assets into American banks, who can in turn sell the debt to the treasury.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE PUT ON THE HOOK FOR WALL STREET, AND ESPECIALLY NOT FOR COMMUNIST NATIONS LIKE CHINA!
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I put up a further series of maps about the House vote against the bailout at Observationalism, a new blog: http://observationalism.com/2008/10/01/the-geography-of-the-bailout-bill-vote/
nice post, nimh – added it to my rss reader