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Best 2004 Electoral/county map Yet
esri ^ | 11/7/04

Posted on 11/07/2004 8:26:26 AM PST by finnman69



TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; 2004map; bigbluemiddlefingers; bushvictory; map; themap
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To: finnman69

very interesting. Thanks for the post.


81 posted on 11/07/2004 10:22:00 AM PST by tarawa
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Ohio wasn't even close if you take out Cleveland/Akron

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.

82 posted on 11/07/2004 10:30:29 AM PST by lancer (If you are not with us, you are against us!)
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To: caspera
"What's your point?"

Thought you were trying to indicate that Manhattan was the whole of NY city.

Chill. :-)

83 posted on 11/07/2004 10:46:52 AM PST by El Gran Salseron (My wife just won the "Inmate of the Month" Award! :-))
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To: finnman69; Marie Antoinette

cool map ping


84 posted on 11/07/2004 11:15:13 AM PST by Big Giant Head (Can we watch our language here? This isn't DU.)
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To: RockinRight

From their website, I infer it represents the margin of votes.


85 posted on 11/07/2004 11:34:05 AM PST by gitmo (Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
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To: Dog Gone
Houston looks pretty red to me, although I don't understand why it appears so short in comparison to much smaller cities like Pittsburgh.

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.

86 posted on 11/07/2004 11:40:39 AM PST by Ichneumon ("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
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To: SwinneySwitch
The tip, Cameron County, is now Republicano!

I thought Cameron County was Republicano, too. Neither map seems to reflect that.

87 posted on 11/07/2004 11:43:19 AM PST by SolidSupplySide
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To: Glenn
Interesting how blue the Mexico border turned.

What do you mean? Was there a time when it was redder?

88 posted on 11/07/2004 11:50:46 AM PST by SolidSupplySide
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To: Dog Gone

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).


89 posted on 11/07/2004 11:52:35 AM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: finnman69

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.


90 posted on 11/07/2004 11:54:53 AM PST by Sally II
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To: Piranha

The New York City column is spread out over a larger area. And this map is showing the density of a voting area.


91 posted on 11/07/2004 11:55:36 AM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: woofer

And Utah. Totally red.


92 posted on 11/07/2004 11:56:09 AM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: caspera; Piranha; El Gran Salseron; TexKat
How was this generated and what does it represent? I have difficulty believing Chicago and L.A. produced more Dem votes than NYC. Manhattan went 85%-15% for Kerry with 3 million residents or so, but it gets that (comparatively) little blue bar?

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
Democratic
1,389,631 70% 99% of precincts reporting
 
Republican
(Incumbent)
583,774 29%
 
Libertarian
11,103 1%


Manhattan
Updated: 12:14 p.m. ET
Democratic
468,841 82% 100% of precincts reporting
 
Republican
(Incumbent)
95,362 17%
 
Independence
7,996 1%
 
Libertarian
1,344 0%
 
Socialist Worker Calero
566 0%


Los Angeles
Updated: 12:14 p.m. ET
Democratic
1,670,341 63% 100% of precincts reporting
 
Republican
(Incumbent)
954,764 36%
 
Libertarian
10,365 1%
 
Green
8,974 0%
 
Peace & Freedom Peltier
7,089 0%
 
American Independence
5,580 0%



93 posted on 11/07/2004 12:01:06 PM PST by Ichneumon ("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
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To: FreedomCalls
The New York City column is spread out over a larger area. And this map is showing the density of a voting area.

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.

94 posted on 11/07/2004 12:03:30 PM PST by Ichneumon ("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
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To: mystery-ak

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.


95 posted on 11/07/2004 12:05:45 PM PST by kittymyrib
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To: AmishDude

Yep. Probably the best map yet. This is the one which should be on the tee-shirts.


96 posted on 11/07/2004 1:30:33 PM PST by liberallarry
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To: mystery-ak

It is higher than LA and NYC for crying out loud.

How the heck can Chicago have that many voters?


97 posted on 11/07/2004 1:54:40 PM PST by rwfromkansas (BYPASS FORCED WEB REGISTRATION! **** http://www.bugmenot.com ****)
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To: rwfromkansas

Good question....I would like answered too!.....


98 posted on 11/07/2004 2:04:59 PM PST by mystery-ak (This military family thanks America for re-electing our CinC)
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To: TexasNative2000

Seen this one? Pretty kewl!


99 posted on 11/07/2004 2:23:48 PM PST by Libloather (SURPRISE! Effin' Kerry failed the American Election Test...)
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To: caspera
What's your point? The other four boroughs went for Kerry 75%-25%.

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.

100 posted on 11/07/2004 2:29:25 PM PST by NYCVirago
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