kaleidescope

Since, I am new, this info may or may not be reiterated from months past. The paths of the three hurricanes moved around each of the democratic counties that scatter Florida, so that the democratic counties only encountered winds and some debry while all the republican counties took a whopping from the hurricanes and some red counties are still recooperating.
I'm not quite sure what, where, whom controlled the paths of the hurricanes, but I definitely don't believe in coincidence.
So what do you all think??? :huh:

Barney Gumble

You need therapy.

kaleidescope

because my life view doesn't reflect your's, BG???

getalong

I think urban areas are situated in places that have protected ports and higher ground. Urban areas are also more Dem leaning.

getalong

Fisheye

It's just not true. Perhaps the OP saw the inaccurate map pictured here: http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/hurricane.asp

Both Frances and Jean made landfall very close to, and impacted heavily, St. Lucie county, which went for Kerry this time. Charley headed straight through Orange county and exited in Volusia county, both of which went for Kerry.

Florida election results

Hurricane Paths (PDF)

kaleidescope

Okay Fisheye, I didn't look into the info enough, but I still don't think three major hurricanes through Fla just before elections was a coincidence; muscles were contracting some where???

Ojuice5001

I've speculated about this very same issue, and here's what I've come up with. Believe as much of it as you see fit.

Many kinds of events in the world, including hurricanes, are influenced by gods. There are many gods in the world, and their organization is oligarchical and dependent on geography. In the United States, the gods who influence events as large in scale as a hurricane are Yahweh and the post-Enlightenment gods. Yahweh is the god worshipped by the Christians and Jews, while the post-Enlightenment gods have not revealed themselves but have had great effect on secular culture in the past three centuries. Yahweh and the post-Enlightenment gods contend among themselves for control of the world. The recent election was important in determining which gods rule over America in the future. As you would expect from the linkages between Christianity and the Republican Party, it was in Yahweh's interests for George W. Bush to win. The post-Enlightenment gods, on the other hand, are linked with the Democratic Party. They wanted John Kerry to win; after all, the man comes from Massachusetts, which is home to Boston, their favorite American city. From this, it is clear that the gods would be likely to manipulate the path of the hurricanes to make the man they wanted win the election.

So if the post-Enlightenment gods are blue, and Yahweh is red, and the blue counties were spared, the first reaction would be to say that the post-Enlightenment gods were guiding the hurricanes to spare their voters and smite those of Yahweh. Nevertheless, the goal is to get one candidate or the other elected, and the relevant psychology is complex. It's conceivable that humans primarily under the control of Yahweh (most but not all of whom are Christians and Jews) would be more likely to get out and vote for Yahweh's preferred candidate if they had been hit by a hurricane. So while that could be it, it would seem simpler, more intuitive, and less unflattering to the gods to assume that it's rivals of Yahweh who were smiting his followers. Yahweh's most powerful rivals in America, as we have seen, are the post-Enlightenment gods. But obviously it didn't work, for the majority of electoral votes, including those of Florida, did go to Bush. So Yahweh continues to grow in power. Time will tell what happens next.

ZouPrime

Yes, it was all coincidence.

Ojuice5001

I just found out something else interesting. The meteorologists are changing the way they present the path of a hurricane to the public. The way we have it now, the hurricane's path is presented as a line. That makes it easier to track the patterns of a hurricane's movement, but we all know that it's not really accurate. A hurricane can have a large effect on a much wider area than that. For instance my county (Alachua, a blue county ) appears to have been unscathed, but I can assure you that we did suffer significant inconvenience. So they're changing their map format to reflect this, and the maps will show a wider area afterwards.

Now the meteorologists say that the reason is to keep from giving people a false sense of security, which is true. But the conspiracy theorist in me says that another reason is the preferences of the gods. The gods' intentions for these hurricanes was discerned by some people much more easily than most natural disasters, and the gods probably prefer the ususal state where they work in mysterious ways. I mean, when there's a natural disaster, today's religious people prefer to keep their speculations about the gods' involvement to an absolute minimum. Just look at how the GRD atheists are treating the tsunami. (I am not of course touching that issue with a ten-foot pole.) The reason for this cultural shift is probably a more prideful attitude toward the relations of men, nature, and gods; we're reluctant to think that we're not in control of natural disasters, more reluctant to think that someone else is, and most reluctant of all to think that that someone else may have good reasons for their policies.

Okay, so humans think less of the gods when they think of their involvement in natural disasters, and neither humans nor gods want that. But it sometimes happens that someone does perceive a pattern that makes them think. That's not all bad, but general policies should aim to decrease that tendency. Like I said, I think that's why the gods' will was a less orderly kind of hurricane map, one with more realism and less pattern.