4.10.2005
I hate to rehash old news, but I just came across this today. Regardless of who anybody thinks should/would/could have won the election, this is an interesting map to look at, geopolitically. I was surprised both at the pervasiveness of the red counties as well as the location of some blue ones. Areas I thought were absolutely republican (north central South Dakota - I am somewhat familiar with that area) went blue, and areas that I thought were totally democratic (MN, OR, NY, etc) had surprising numbers of red counties. I am not making any claims here... just something interesting.
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Red/Blue really doesn't tell the whole story. This election was a shade of purple...and when you resize the US based on population you really get an accurate picture of what happened.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/
Jx2
Fascinating stuff...:) i have to admit that the purple maps were a little difficult to analyze visually. Without the contrasting colors, it is hard to tell exactly how the shade of purple you see translates into a political leaning. It would be interesting to see it portrayed spectrally with red at one end and blue at the other and various colors in between (yellow would be evenly split in this case). Perhaps a shaded grayscale would suffice for this as well...
Again, cool stuff to think about. I make my living at the moment with satellite images of the earth (particularly N. America) and there are a lot of ideas and methods that would translate well here. :)
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J_x_2 >Red/Blue really doesn't tell the whole story. This election was a shade of purple...and when you resize the US based on population you really get an accurate picture of what happened.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/
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j >Fascinating stuff...:) i have to admit that the purple maps were a little difficult to analyze visually. Without the contrasting colors, it is hard to tell exactly how the shade of purple you see translates into a political leaning. It would be interesting to see it portrayed spectrally with red at one end and blue at the other and various colors in between (yellow would be evenly split in this case). Perhaps a shaded grayscale would suffice for this as well...
Again, cool stuff to think about. I make my living at the moment with satellite images of the earth (particularly N. America) and there are a lot of ideas and methods that would translate well here. :)
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