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[topaz]

The current meme going around seems to be electoral maps. We've all seen the state-by-state electoral breakdown, but here are some of the more interesting versions I've seen:

At http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2004/countymap.htm, a map of Democratic and Republican votes, broken down by county rather than by state:


At http://www.electoral-vote.com/carto/nov04c.html, a "cartogram," which is apparently a map scaled to population rather than area:


From http://www.boingboing.net. This map describes just the margin of victory. Each state is colored a shade of purple depending on how many Republican (red) or Democrat (blue) votes it got. This gives a much better idea of how mixed the vote was:


moominmolly and claudia_ each posted a purple cartogram, combining the last two ideas. I think they did this independently, but I'm not sure. claudia_ posted her version here:


And moominmolly's is here:


I think this one is my favorite. A purple map drawn by county rather than by state. From KieranHealy.org.


Kieran links to a really huge version of this one: 1547x1053, 400KB.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

topaz_munro, crouchback, moominmolly: thanks for the encouragement!

I just did the 2004 maps here...

http://obsidianorder.blogspot.com/2004/11/red-and-blue-reprise-2004.html (http://obsidianorder.blogspot.com/2004/11/red-and-blue-reprise-2004.html)

enjoy!

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! My hat is off to you, sir.

The difference-change map between 2000 and 2004 is especially cool, and a nice bonus.