Friday, October 3, 2008

and, oh, by the way


has anybody looked at the electoral map lately?

4 comments:

dave3544 said...

and then there's this:

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

Sorry about the lack of tags. cut and paste, it's worth it.

gabbagabbahey said...

is that better/worse than expected? looks pretty good, but I haven't been following the trends.

I wanted to compare the red/blue state map with my blog readership from Google Analytics (kinda evil, but interesting) stats, but first I need to adjust for state populations.

wobblie said...

GGH - those are fantastic looking maps right now. I'll draw your attention to Florida, especially. The fact that Virginia and North Carolina are in play is huge. Nevada, New Mexico, and Colorado are also all pick-ups. Basically, Obama's winning all the states Kerry won in 2004 (solidifying them in some cases, like Wisconsin), and has made BIG inroads into traditionally GOP territory. A win with 338 electoral votes gets us into "mandate" territory.

gabbagabbahey said...

wobs, thanks for the explanation.

just to make sure lex sees this - the electoral map as analysed through the readership of a European liberal's blog about punk rock and hardcore: http://hardcorefornerds.blogspot.com/2008/10/election-for-nerds-special.html