Electoral map in three dimensions vividly shows results (Incredible!)

http://people.delphiforums.com/nellie501/Bushcountry.jpg ^ | 11-6-04 | Unknown

[Atlas Sneezed]

This deserves its own thread

It already has one...

Best 2004 Electoral/county map Yet

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Doh! (I wonder why my FR search for "map" found zero hits?)

[dr_who_2]

A good test of that might be to sum up the heights of all the red counties in Ohio and compare them with the combined height of all the big blue bars.

[mercy]

I'd rather the GOP be white and the Rats pink.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Hey, you're tossing in a big chunk of red PA and red NY. We don't want to be with those morons!

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Freedom has its price. That may include the cost of relocation, sorry to say. Look on the bright side: there would be many welcome emigrations from the red zone.

[thucydides]

After looking at the ESRI website, I don't think it's the margin, just the total votes per county, and then whoever won (by whatever margin) determines the color of the county. But this is a guess.

[Clemenza]

Broward County looks phallic between Miami-Dade and Palm Beach.

[festus]

And the Jihadi's want to target the large cities which form the core of their sympathizers........

[PISANO]

Government subsidized housing's revenge!!

[Political Junkie Too]

The height shows the vote differential between Kerry and Bush. Here's a scanned paper version:

Found from this thread.

-PJ

[Atlas Sneezed]

Has anyone seen the purple map? NPR said someone blended the reds and blues together, making shades of purple and lavender. That might be interesting to look at.

Here it is. It seems designed to blur the differences, and to minimize the impact of the widespread Bush victory (he got at least 40% support in 47 states, while Kerry failed to get 40% in 13 states.

A better way to illustrate vote strength (2000 election) keeps the Red and blue, with lighter shades for lower margins (white for even), instead of muddying up the picture with purples.

[Atlas Sneezed]

I don't think it's the margin, just the total votes per county, and then whoever won.

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No. See post 77.

[Doe Eyes]

Reminds me of one of those satellite views of the earth at night. Kerry only got votes from the area's that were lit up.

[nonkultur]

That San Fransico margin seems really interesting compared to NY and LA.

Chicago definately needs an investigation with nearly 1 million in the margin.

[Commie Basher]

i agree. dems should be red, we should be blue. even peter jennings made a comment that the colors were controversial. i suspect they didn't give dems red because they were afraid it would be associated with communism and socialism. we should start a movement to switch the colors.

I thought the same thing in 2000.

In 1988, the GOP was blue.

I never noticed the colors in 1992 and 1996. But when I noticed the colors in 2000, I thought maybe they switched the colors back and forth. So I was curious what color they'd use in 2004. Then I saw...red again?

[Pit1]

Looks Like the Dims inhabit the banks of the Mississippi River, almost all the way down. Or am I seeing things.

[ironman]

The height of the bar is vote margin (Bush-Kerry) for red, (Kerry-Bush) for blue.

[Political Junkie Too]

San Francisco's population isn't really that large. San Jose is a larger city than San Francisco.

-PJ

[Pit1]

Looks Like the Dims inhabit the banks of the Mississippi River, almost all the way down. Or am I seeing things.

[dr_who_2]

I'd like to see some definite numbers on number of votes versus number of registered voters and the number of registered voters versus the voting age population, region by region. Another thing to find out are your chances of getting a provisional (or normal?) ballot if it's not established at the precinct that you are eligible.

[Political Junkie Too]

The purple map, plus others, can be found in the link on my post 89. Take a look at the proportional map based on electoral votes.

-PJ