Red vs. Blue
Politics November 4th, 2004 |The problem with the typical “red vs. blue” map of how states voted is that while it accurately represents the final casting of each state’s electoral votes, it doesn’t accurately represent how each state actually voted on the individual level. Here’s a map created by Jeff Culver that colors each state according to the proportion of votes each candidate got.
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(via Boing Boing)
Update: here’s a map that sticks to the usual red/blue, but breaks it down by county rather than by state.
(via Dave)
Update: Yet another map, this time combining the two above, to give a county-by-county shading.
(via MeFi)
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November 4th, 2004 at 10:32 am
Thanks - I’ve been looking for the county-by-county map. It tells us some interesting things - 1. In Texas, Austin and mostly Hispanic Rio Grande counties voted Kerry 2. In North Carolina and Virginia the tech strips (Research Triangle, Northern Virginia) did NOT vote Kerry whereas in NY Rochester/Syracuse DID vote Kerry - (NY’s equivalent of tech corridor) 3. Tucson & Flagstaff voted for Kerry - both are heavily dependent on academia 4. The adjacent Mississippi River counties and the old Civil Rights counties in the deep South voted FOR Kerry 5. Metropolitan and Academic Iowa voted FOR Kerry 6. Ecologically sensitive and eco-tourism S Dakota voted FOR Kerry 7. Only half of eco-tourism Montana voted for Kerry
This was only looking strictly at the Red states. The question might be why did intellectual NC and VA not vote for Kerry. There is still Democratic life in the Old South.
Kerry might have won more had his message appealed to the academic and ecology and Civil Rights issues more than it did. The Democratic Party clearly needs cleaning out and there needs to be the establishment of a new set of principals because the present ones are barely discernible from those of the Republicans.
November 4th, 2004 at 4:19 pm
When posting images, can you pleeease remember to set the scrollbars of a popup window to ON, as it’s very annoying not being able to scroll large images, even when the window itself is resizeable. This is true of the ‘asshole.jpg’ image you posted too - that had no scrollbars either and it’s too big to display all at once. Thanks.
November 4th, 2004 at 5:32 pm
I’ll keep trying, Neil — there’s a preset template for posting images in ecto that I can’t seem to change (at least, any changes I make don’t stick). I’ve got this image and the asshole.jpg screenshot fixed now.
Truth to tell, I never notice, as I’ve got Safari opening all pop-up links into new tabs instead of new windows. I’ll keep trying to remember to check that, though. Sorry for the annoyance!