Posted on 11/07/2004 8:26:26 AM PST by finnman69
very interesting. Thanks for the post.
LOL! That's like Marion Berry's comment about the crime rate in Washington, D.C. ("It would be one of the lowest in the country, if you don't count the murders.") True, I swear.
Thought you were trying to indicate that Manhattan was the whole of NY city.
Chill. :-)
cool map ping
From their website, I infer it represents the margin of votes.
I suspect that the height of the counties is based on "net" votes, not total votes.
For example, if Houston had 2 million "red" votes and 1 million "blue" votes, it would be represented by a red column 1 million tall (2 red minus 1 blue), whereas if a city of the same size had 2.7 million "blue" votes and 0.3 million "red" votes, it would be represented by a blue column 2.4 million tall (2.7 minus 0.3).
Not only would that explain the heights seen in the 3D chart, but it would also probably be more informative than a similar chart scaled in a "winner take all" method.
I thought Cameron County was Republicano, too. Neither map seems to reflect that.
What do you mean? Was there a time when it was redder?
Houston is the 4th largest city in the US. It looks so short because the way they made the map. They made it so that you are looking down on Houston almost vertically. It exaggerates the height of the far northern, far western, and far eastern cities at the expense of the central southern cities (like Houston, Dallas, and New Orleans).
I've been hoping to find a map that shows the elections by county. Great to see that. I was wondering how much of the Central California valley (my home) voted. And i'm comforted to see all that red. But anyone know what the deal is with Alpine and Mono counties on the far right? Those are the only mountain areas that voted Kerry.
The New York City column is spread out over a larger area. And this map is showing the density of a voting area.
And Utah. Totally red.
Looking at CNN's county-by-county results (below), it looks as if the explanation is that the NYC vote is fractioned among several geographically small, closely-spaced counties (Manhattan, Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn, and Westchester, see here), whereas the LA and Chicago (Cook County) votes are each ALL stacked up in a single large county.
So the NYC vote is represented by five separate "columns", each about a fifth as tall as they would be if NYCity was encompassed by a single county.
Cook
Updated: 12:13 p.m. ET
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1,389,631 | 70% | 99% of precincts reporting | |||
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583,774 | 29% | |||||
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11,103 | 1% | |||||
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Manhattan
Updated: 12:14 p.m. ET
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468,841 | 82% | 100% of precincts reporting | |||
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95,362 | 17% | |||||
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7,996 | 1% | |||||
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1,344 | 0% | |||||
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566 | 0% | |||||
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Los Angeles
Updated: 12:14 p.m. ET
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1,670,341 | 63% | 100% of precincts reporting | |||
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954,764 | 36% | |||||
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10,365 | 1% | |||||
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8,974 | 0% | |||||
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7,089 | 0% | |||||
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5,580 | 0% | |||||
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No, it's not. If so LA County would be a lot shorter than the NYC counties, since it's a very big county, geographically, while the NYC counties are so tiny I had trouble clicking them on the CNN New York state map.
All of you who voted for the President, but whose states went to Kerry, need to hold your state representatives accountable to the voters in their areas when they go to the state legislatures. What right have the cities to sop up gazillions of dollars from the rural and suburban voters just because freeloaders live there? Make the urban dwellers do without if they can't afford medical care and education. No rural community ought to send more taxes to the state than they get back in benefits. It's time to fight back.
Yep. Probably the best map yet. This is the one which should be on the tee-shirts.
It is higher than LA and NYC for crying out loud.
How the heck can Chicago have that many voters?
Good question....I would like answered too!.....
Seen this one? Pretty kewl!
Actually, Staten Island, my borough, voted 57% for Bush, the highest percentage they've ever given any presidential candidate. They narrowly went for Gore last time around. The media has ignored this, but I think 9/11 was the decisive factor -- most NYC cops and firefighters live on Staten Island, and the borough is by far the most patriotic one in the city.
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