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A great big welcome to the Head Minion, aka semanticsmc!

Post-election psychology

This is largely a rhetorical question, because I don't think there's any good way to evaluate this. Grief is not something that can be quantified terribly well, and in any case a proper survey of this type would take some pretty impressive infrastructure to which I don't have access. Still, my handful of readers spans a majority of the United States, not to mention a few other countries, and if nothing else, that's a rough way of putting a thumb on the pulse.

What I'm wondering is this: There are a lot of people who are really, genuinely heartbroken over the results of Tuesday's election. Do more of these people live in swing states, or states which went solidly one way or another?

I've got some speculations about this one, but I'll leave them unspoken for the moment. Please pass this link around to your friends -- the more results, the better.

(Note: Where I say 'a red state' or 'a blue state', I mean a solidly red or blue state, as in "there is no way this state could have gone any other way," like Texas.)

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