re: #9 Kaessa

NPR has an interesting stats board:

[Link: elections2012.npr.org…]

Speaking as a Canadian, that appears odd to me. My thought was, “Look at how divided the votes are. There’s very few close races. One candidate or the other wins by a big, often huge margin.”

Is that how it usually works? If not, the political divide in the U.S. is shocking to me.