maps

[inhumandecency]

Just last night I was saying I was eager to see the purple map for this election -- remember that? It was a US map that showed election returns on a county level, coloring each county a shade between red and blue depending on how republican or democratic its vote total was. Well, here it is.

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[inhumandecency]

Looks like it! Here he is at Santa Fe. He's not responsible for the maps above, but he has some other interesting visualizations on his site.

[griffjon]

I went to that same site yesterday (and twittered it, but forgot to spread it into LJ love land) I was very happy when I found he'd already updated the 2008 map.

I find it aesthetically .. true (?) that it seems the red appears like webbing or rope binding the rest of the country (due to the population scaling with the big city:more liberal correlation).

< / end seriousness >
Also - Florida. Loosen the cock ring, dude.

[ebourland]

Neat.

[kristal_science]

Glenn was explaining the whole "states with small populations benefit disproportionately from the electoral vote system" on Tuesday, but this really helps me cement the concept. Thanks!

[inhumandecency]

Check out their website for more helpful images. They have a population-distorted map that keeps the state lines in place, so you can really see who changes and how. You can see Wyoming and Montana shrink a lot more on the population-based map than on the electoral vote map -- their two bonus EVs triple their electoral representation!

[dr_pipe]

what, in Austin? who?

[inhumandecency]

No, it was when I was living at Renaissance in Ann Arbor. These maps only debuted in the 2004 election.