{"id":2933,"date":"2004-11-03T23:27:16","date_gmt":"2004-11-04T15:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/04\/red-vs-blue\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T13:48:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T21:48:06","slug":"red-vs-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/03\/red-vs-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Red vs. Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"

The problem with the typical “red vs.\u00a0blue” map of how states voted is that while it accurately represents the final casting of each state’s electoral votes, it doesn’t accurately represent how each state actually voted on the individual level. Here’s a map created by Jeff Culver<\/a> that colors each state according to the proportion of votes each candidate got.<\/p>\n

\"Purple<\/a><\/p>\n

(via Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Update: here’s a map<\/a> that sticks to the usual red\/blue, but breaks it down by county rather than by state.<\/p>\n

(via Dave<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Update: Yet another map<\/a>, this time combining the two above, to give a county-by-county shading.<\/p>\n

(via MeFi<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"iTunes\"<\/a> “Groove Radio pres. House (full mix)<\/a>” by Various Artists<\/a> from the album Groove Radio pres. House (full mix)<\/a><\/em> (1997, 1:13:46).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The problem with the typical “red vs. blue” map of how states voted is that while it accurately represents the final casting of each state’s electoral votes, it doesn’t accurately represent how each state actually voted on the individual level. Here’s a map created by Jeff Culver that colors each state according to the proportion of votes each candidate got.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}