To: dr_who_2
Perhaps it is simple absolute vote margin by county. Reno (Washoe, with over 150,000 votes) appears invisible, and it was 51% Bush - 47% Kerry in that county (7000 vote margin). This supports the total vote margin hypothesis.
The exact same thing is true of Albuquerque (Bernalillo County) which was 51-47, less than 10,000 vote difference, out of ~250,000 voters.
I think we have figured it out.
77 posted on
11/07/2004 2:34:29 PM PST by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your Friendly Freeper Patent Attorney)
To: Beelzebubba
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.
82 posted on
11/07/2004 2:38:42 PM PST by
dr_who_2
To: Beelzebubba
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.
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