WIRED has a nice explainer of various electoral map cartograms. EVERY MAP MAKES COMPROMISES. The Mercator projection, which sacrifices accurate geography for...
50 Years of Electoral College Maps: How the U.S. Turned Red and Blue – NY Times
The New York Times uses electoral maps to show political realignments over the past 50 years. Notable moments include the...
Red State vs. Blue State Infographic
InfographicWorld.com created an interactive infographic detailing the relative strengths and weaknesses of each state. One thing that jumps out is...
Links of Interest 10-9-2008
Interesting links.... Pollster: Campaign '08 Trends vs '04 and '00 Update polling trendlines for the 2008, 2004, and 2000 presidential election....
Noteworthy News and Links: 10-6-2008
A few interesting news stories from the past few days... New York Times: Economic Unrest Shifts Electoral Battlegrounds with Multimedia...
Patchwork Nation from the Christian Science Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor's Patchwork Nation project has grouped every US county into one of eleven community types and is...
Barack Obama Wins the Democratic Presidential Nomination
Senator Barack Obama defeated Hillary Clinton to become the Democratic presidential nominee after one of the longest and closest primaries in history. More than 35 million voters took part in this historic election, yet Obama only had a small margin over Clinton (in both delegates and the popular vote).
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Here are a collection of maps highlighting how Obama won. These will no doubt be analyzed in great detail between now and the general election, with John McCain looking to take advantage of Obama’s geographic weaknesses that became apparent during the primary, such as Appalachia and the rural rust belt.
Weekly Link Roundup 4-20-2008
Collection of interesting links and news stories from the past week with a focus on the political and geographic: 358:...
Weekly Link Roundup 4-14-2008
Collection of the most interesting political and geographic news stories from the past week: US News: In Terms of Geography,...
LA Times Primary Tracker
The Los Angeles Times’ interactive Primary Tracker contains a state by states breakdown of primary schedules, current polling, and election results.
If Clicks Were Votes – November 2007
Compete.com, which specializes in web analytics, has released some interesting maps about who is visiting the Presidential Cantidates’ websites. Based on their analysis, Ron Paul leads the Republicans and Barak Obama leads the Democrats.