Maps of the 2008 US presidential election results

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	Maps of the 2008 US presidential election results

reimers

11-5-2008 9:21 PM

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11-6-2008 4:27 AM

mona

i like those visuals

11-6-2008 2:35 PM

iulawboy

The last map is the most striking. The vast red swath on the geographic map has been reduced to extremely small bands.

Also the blueist of blue counties that look so small on the geographic map balloon out when the population cardiogram.

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Here are the 2008 presidential election results on a population cartogram
of this type:
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We can represent the effects of the electoral college by scaling the sizes
of states to be proportional to their number of electoral votes, which
gives a map that looks like this:
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But we can go further.  We can do the same thing also with the county-level
election results and the images are even more striking.  Here is a
map of US counties, again colored red and blue to indicate Republican and
Democratic majorities respectively:
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Now the effects we saw at the state level are even more pronounced: the red
areas appear overwhelmingly in the majority, an appearance again at odds
with the actual results of the election.  Again, we can make a more helpful
respresentation by using a cartogram.  Here is what the cartogram looks
like for the county-level election returns:
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