Posted on 11/10/2016 8:21:29 AM PST by bigbob
How Trump Reshaped the Election Map
Red arrows show how much Donald J. Trump surpassed Mitt Romney in counties across the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
This one shows very clearly how Trump's superior message and hard work allowed him to blow past the lackluster showing Mitt Romney made in 2012, giving Obama a 2nd term.
It's nothing we don't already know, but an informative display and a trend that should bode well for candidates in these counties who have the sense to understand why this happened and to get started Making their small part of America Great Again.
Scroll up and down to see the shift on a county by county basis.
There map and “meters” election night were great.
Yep, I was surprised they even wrote the code to show a Trump win ;-)
I’d like someone to develop a “PO’ed meter” as I think both sides of the isle would light it up.
Strange, but good to see.
When is Michigan going to announce its election results?
Ever?
Same for Arizona and New Hampshire.
I always follow the NYT election maps. Their graphics are superior, easy to read.
I heard Michigan today. Not sure of the other two.
Absolutely. I had the page with the NYT election meter (with Trump’s meter at 95% Very Likely [to win the Presidency]) open pretty much the whole night. And I was shocked and impressed with their offerings! And yes. When they showed up. It was great to see! Especially loved their following day headline: TRUMP TRIUMPH!
Absolutely! Very helpful!
They really did. I was surprised but they really did an incredible job on their interactive tools for the election. The way they visualized the data really helped.
I liked the small state maps which showed potential votes for each candidate as differently sized dots. It really helped to understand what votes were left and where.
Maybe Saturday for our slow counting Pima County, AZ...
See that patch of really dense red arrows, just west of Washington DC?
That’s West Virginia, western Pennsylvania, and northern Kentucky.
Coal country.
We supported McCain and Romney, even though they had little to say to us.
Trump promised to end the war on coal. Looks like we listened.
Donald Trump did not “reshape the electoral map”. The is no such thing as “the blue wall”.
States like WI, MI, PA, IA, etc. were ALWAYS swing states. But lousy, soft GOP candidates like GWB, McCain, Romney wrote of those states and never made a play for them. The did nothing to appeal to the working class people in those states. So, those people never came out and voted.
Donald made a play and succeeded in those states. Hillary took WI for granted and never showed he face in the state after the primaries.
After they saw the handwriting on the wall. They had no choice.
Thanks for posting this. This was a great map to watch on the election.
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