zabbo

The talking heads have been making lots of noise about red and blue states recently. This all reminded me of a nice article over a style.org (boy do I wish they’d produce some more content) on the misleading geographical maps of California’s gubernatorial election. I was hoping to find some similar work on the 2004 presidential election and I wasn’t disappointed. I think my favourite is the work done by a team at the University of Michigan: “Maps and cartograms of the 2004 US presidential election results”. (also, get your purple map shirts today!). I’m probably a big dork for coming to this a month and a half late, but here we are.

Also, while we’re at it, everyone point and laugh at the ever-useful Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections for mispredicting what the rest of the world would mean by red and blue.