electoral college chronological movie!

electoral-vote.caida.org ^ | June 2004 to September 2004 | Colleen Shannon

[miltonim]

To stop movie press browser's "stop" button.

Fast version: http://electoral-vote.caida.org/index-fast.html

Normal version: http://electoral-vote.caida.org/index.html

Slow version: http://electoral-vote.caida.org/index-slow.html

[miltonim]

The base images for each frame of this animation and the images for the accompanying legend come from http://www.electoral-vote.com -- one of the best websites for current information about the 2004 Presidential election.

After one of my friends lamented the lack of an animated view of the changes in electoral votes over time, I created this animation from the images available at http://www.electoral-vote.com. This tiny hack is intended only as a supplement to the electoral-vote.com website and and wouldn't be possible without it!

Update Sat Aug 28 17:26:32 PDT 2004: I've added vertical bars showing the number of electoral votes held by each candidate to each frame of the animation. Thanks to Abe Singer for helping with the historical data. Some folks have been confused, so I also want to clarify that each colored US map with the number of electoral votes in each state comes from the http://www.electoral-vote.com website. I take the images, add some text (most notably the date) and the vertical bars showing the number of electoral votes, and then create the animation. This is much easier than paying attention to the poll data and making the maps to begin with. This site is intended only as a new way to view trends in the electoral-vote.com data.

Barring any technical difficulties, these pages should now refresh themselves every hour and the site itself should be updated by 8:30am PDT every day.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Like it but the site is run by someone who is going to cry for 4 years if Bush wins and it shows. The analysis of the raw numbers is pretty fair, but all polls (even the I love Kerry Zogby out "Liar" ones are given pretty much the same weight). I hit it every day. Go to: Here and look at the latest polls and then go play with Here to come up with what I think is happening. very good site and nice animation in any case.

[miltonim]

Agree. Thanks for the links.

[DC Bound]

Thanks for the work you put into this. If you had a staff to help, I'd suggest going to the battleground states and adding 2% for Kerry to allow for voter fraud.

[miltonim]

Actually, just found the site today. Placed the copied text in the "comments" box by mistake.

[pcgTheDestroyer]

Another one is: http://www.electionprojection.com/ - basically similar to the electoral-vote.com one, but equally biased toward W. The electoral-vote.com people seem awfully cool though - they openly admit their bias and suggest alternate sites.

Disclaimer: I haven't checked into the stats analysis of either sites. I just like the pictures. ;-)

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Another one is: http://www.electionprojection.com/ - basically similar to the electoral-vote.com one, but equally biased toward W. The electoral-vote.com people seem awfully cool though - they openly admit their bias and suggest alternate sites. Disclaimer: I haven't checked into the stats analysis of either sites. I just like the pictures. ;-)

They update slow, but I really like the approach. I didnt list them cause it was so slow, but I look at it too. Update timing was the only reason I didnt mention em. I like their math best... but its not interactive and it is pretty W biased. I prefer to look at anti W and interpolate/extrapolate the truths.