Maps and cartograms of the 2004 US presidential election results(some new maps)

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/ ^ | 11/7/04 | Michael Gastner, Cosma Shalizi, and Mark Newman

[Diddle E. Squat]

The cranky cheerleaders won't like some of these, but the cartograms are both interesting representations and more accurate in some ways. Like it or not, 51% to 48% is somewhat close and also reality. At the same time, 51% is also greater than the majority, and politically a mandate.

The authors have also done a good job in better differentiating the colors in the 'purple map'.

[beezdotcom]

I prefer the one which uses white as the 50/50 color, and then shifts red or blue as appropriate.

I'm still waiting to see a map that goes by congressional district, rather than county. I'm also waiting to see an analysis that shows the EV total if all states apportioned their EVs like Maine and Nebraska (not that I'm necessarily advocating that, but I'd like to know just as a data point.)

[Atlas Sneezed]

[Leonard210]

Looks to me like they're just trying to make the maps appear more blue. Oh well, whatever gets them through the next 4 years.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Good one, thanks for posting it.

[Howlin]

Maps!

[Mitchell]

Bump.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

No matter how you slice it, Kerry got 3.5 million less votes than Bush.
He also loses in the Electoral College.

[Atlas Sneezed]

I think this one is missing some data. There shouldn't be all that white in the NE.

[BunnySlippers]

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[GraniteStateConservative]

My lawn tried to vote for Bush but didn't care to wait in line behind the college students and residents of Massachusetts who were ready to pretend to be residents of New Hampshire and vote illegally here so Kerry could get our electoral votes.

[OXENinFLA]

Yeah, that ought to do it..............

[Diddle E. Squat]

Now I'm just waiting for someone to synthesize this:

and this:

[Michael.SF.]

EV total if all states apportioned their EVs like Maine and Nebraska

To settle an argument, I ran the numbers for the 2000 election based on apportionment of the EV's. The results were:

Bush 273
Gore 263
Nader 2

My criteria was this: The winner of the most votes, got the most EV's for that state. logical yes, but in a state that has 5 EV's and split was 50-49.5, the fifty got three EV's, the other 2.

Also Nader only got an EV in a state where his perccentage equaled the percentage equivalent of one electoral vote. (i.e. 5 EV's requires twenty percent of the vote, 50 EV's would require two percent).

I think if we ran the numbers for 2004, Bush would come ahead by an even wider margin then he actually did.

[leadpencil1]

Interesting

[expat_panama]

Fabulous! Hard numbers and diagrams tell quite a story.

[foreverfree]

bump

[beezdotcom]

Try this one:

[Semi Civil Servant]

It all depends on how you look at it.

[beezdotcom]

WHOOPS! Meant to post the smaller one...sorry, everybody...