WIRED: Electoral Maps All Look a Little Different. Here’s Why
WIRED has a nice explainer of various electoral map cartograms. EVERY MAP MAKES COMPROMISES. The Mercator projection, which sacrifices accurate…
National Geographic: There’s More Than One Way to Map an Election
National Geographic has great article about the history of electoral maps. Highlights include the earliest known US electoral map from…
2016
2016 Presidential Campaign
Campaign Finance
Donald Trump
Florida
Hillary Clinton
Michigan
North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Wisconsin
The Swing States Where Political TV Ad Spending Has Heated Up — and Gone Cold
Advertising Age takes a look at what states saw increases in ad spending in September compared to August. Colorado saw…
Elect Project: Ohio absentee ballot requests are down 2.6% from 2012
Michael McDonald from the ElectProject.org highlights decreases in absentee ballot requests in Ohio, particularly in Democratic counties. Ohio absentee ballot…
538: Where Do Clinton And Trump Have The Most Upside?
FiveThirtyEight digs on the implication of Trump winning more of the white vote without college degrees while Clinton wins more…
Vox: Nearly one-third of all Republican senators now say they won’t support Trump
Vox maps out Republican senator support for Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate. Nearly a third of Republicans in the…
Washington Post: 2016 electoral map is rapidly slipping away from Donald Trump
The Washington Post provides an update on the 2016 electoral map based on the latest polling that shows a Clinton…
538: Women Are Defeating Donald Trump
FiveThirtyEight takes a look at the gender split and what the electoral map would look like if only women or…
NPR Battleground Map: Trump In Crisis
NPR highlights how Donald Trump’s electoral map has collapsed in the wake of two weeks of nearly non-stop negative news…
2016 Electoral Map Predictions: 31 days to the election
There are 31 days before the 2016 Presidential election. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton remains the favorite over Republican Donald Trump…
6 Million Lost Voters: State-Level Estimates of Felony Disenfranchisement 2016
Sentencing Project.org has released (PDF) state-level estimates of voter disenfranchisement due to felony convictions. Florida, a key 2016 swing state,…
Washington Post: In battle for the Senate, Democrats now have a narrow edge
The Washington Post provides an update on the 2016 Senate campaigns and give the Democrats a narrow edge to gain…
New York Times: Questions to Consider if Your Trump-Clinton Vote Doesn’t Really Count
The New York Times details disparities in voting power that show how little votes for president in states like California,…
PBS: Election Central Interactive Map
PBS has put together an interactive educational map that includes a wealth of info about the 2016 election, including biographical…
New York Times: Detailed Maps of Where Trump, Cruz, Clinton and Sanders Have Won
The New York Times provides detailed maps showing where Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton won during the primaries. Click through…
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2016 Presidential Campaign
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Colorado
Donald Trump
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Iowa
Nevada
New Hampshire
North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Virginia
NBC News: Clinton Maintains Ad-Spending Advantage Over Trump
NBC News highlights the TV advertising spending disparity between the Pro-Clinton and Pro-Trump camps. States colored based on campaign spending…
National Review: Why Trump Can Win Pennsylvania
The National Review oulines how a Republican presidential candidate could win Pennsylvania for the first time in 25 years. The…
Foward: How Jewish Vote Could Tip Presidential Election in Crucial Swing States
Forward.com takes a look at how and where the Jewish vote could impact the presidential election. A new study, touted…
WIRED: Clinton and Trump Get Most of Their Campaign Funds from These 250 Neighborhoods
WIREDmagazine details how most of the donations to Clinton and Trump come from a relatively small number of neighborhoods, which…
2016
2016 Presidential Campaign
Donald Trump
Electoral College
Gary Johnson
Hillary Clinton
New Mexico
538: The Craziest End To The 2016 Campaign Runs Through New Mexico
FiveThirtyEight.com shares an electoral map outcome where no presidential candidate receives the required 270 electoral votes needed to win. There…
Early Voting Map 2016
35% of the votes cast for president in 2012 were cast before election day via early voting, absentee ballot voting…
TIME: See How Likely It Is That Your Voting Booth Gets Hacked
TIME magazine highlights that some votes are more at risk of hacking due to the use of electronic voting booths…