A better electoral Map

[FillJackson]

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NY Times is trying out an electoral map where the size of the state is determined by their electoral votes/population and not by they geographic size.

I think this approach makes a lot sense. Alaska is enormous, but it doesn't really matter much in elections, because it doesn't have very many electoral votes. Texas is giant too, but it has many more electoral votes, so it matters more, so it's bigger.


It also indicates that both Maine and Nebraska award their electoral votes at the congressional district level, not the state level. This comes into play if we ever have a super close election or a tie.

[Nick Young]

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The latest polls from this morning have Trump at 47% and Clinton at 40% by the way. (http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-usc-daybreak-poll-methodology-20160714-snap-story.html)

Also, Trump is currently up +3 in Ohio, I don't know where you got that map from.


Under budget and ahead of schedule.

[FillJackson]

I like this because you still get a sense of Midwest, South, Northeast, and you see the value of each state towards 270.

[Nick Young]

Berned out by Bernie's betrayal?

Now is as good a time as any to learn about the Queen of Thorns, the Based Dr. Jill Stein of House Green

http://www.pinellasgreens.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/jill2.png

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Trust her. She's a Doctor.
House DNC is hemorrhaging voters.
Follow the Queen of Thorns.

[Hawker]

You mean kinda like 538 has been doing on its election forecast? (http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/#now)

Am I supposed to be impressed by the NY Times doing this? It's not some innovative thing in terms of visual representation of data.

[Patrick Chewing]

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[FillJackson]

You mean kinda like 538 has been doing on its election forecast? (http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/#now)

I much prefer the boxes to 538's honeycombs. It's very hard to read 538's map.

[Nanners]

:oldlol:

get real, kevin you prefer the ny times map because it makes it look like hillary is still leading.

its "very hard to read" anything that suggests trump has taken the lead

[Nick Young]

+3 in Ohio
AND TRUMP HASN'T EVEN STARTED ON OHIO YET

Landslide victory folks.

We are on pace for the first 50 state sweep in US election history

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UNDER BUDGET AND AHEAD OF SCHEDULE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic87SfqQAAM)
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[TheMan]

Nick's troll posts will be hilarious on Nov 8

[Nick Young]

False bravado and hiding your head in the sand won't stop reality.


Nick's troll posts will be hilarious on Nov 8

Have you heard of the #DNCwalkout and #DemExit?

Maybe not, the mainstream media is refusing to cover it.


CNN believes "Clinton nomination puts 'biggest crack' in glass ceiling" is an accurate summarization of DNC: http://archive.is/CiJUT


Sarah silverman "Thank God they can fix this in post": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gensWq4xl0I

Hundreds walk out, empty stadium: https://twitter.com/sci_solar/status/758116370840039424

Other speakers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnhGMUKeq1A

[Hawker]

:oldlol:

get real, kevin you prefer the ny times map because it makes it look like hillary is still leading.

its "very hard to read" anything that suggests trump has taken the lead

He talks like a retard in his OP.

"Alaska is enormous but doesn't matter much because it doesn't have many electoral votes."

No ****ing shit. Everyone on ISH knows this.

[falc39]

:oldlol:

get real, kevin you prefer the ny times map because it makes it look like hillary is still leading.

its "very hard to read" anything that suggests trump has taken the lead

It's hillarious how bad he is at trying to hide his shilling. Dude tries so hard to craft his posts objectively but everyone can see the agenda he is pushing.

[9erempiree]

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NY Times is trying out an electoral map where the size of the state is determined by their electoral votes/population and not by they geographic size.

I think this approach makes a lot sense. Alaska is enormous, but it doesn't really matter much in elections, because it doesn't have very many electoral votes. Texas is giant too, but it has many more electoral votes, so it matters more, so it's bigger.


It also indicates that both Maine and Nebraska award their electoral votes at the congressional district level, not the state level. This comes into play if we ever have a super close election or a tie.

We already know this.

The NYTimes is dumbing down the electoral map for guys like you.

[DeuceWallaces]

:oldlol:

get real, kevin you prefer the ny times map because it makes it look like hillary is still leading.

its "very hard to read" anything that suggests trump has taken the lead

If you find this very hard to read, you may want to see a physician or mental health specialist.

[FillJackson]

If you find this very hard to read, you may want to see a physician or mental health specialist.
Also, I got that off google images after seeing it in a video.

I believe that's the 2012 map.

People have been talking about this since 2004 (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2004/)and one of the first ideas proposed was what is known as a cartogram.

The (contiguous 48) states of the country are colored red or blue to indicate whether a majority of their voters voted for the Republican candidate (George W. Bush) or the Democratic candidate (John F. Kerry) respectively. The map gives the superficial impression that the "red states" dominate the country, since they cover far more area than the blue ones. However, as pointed out by many others, this is misleading because it fails to take into account the fact that most of the red states have small populations, whereas most of the blue states have large ones. The blue may be small in area, but they are large in terms of numbers of people, which is what matters in an election.

We can correct for this by making use of a cartogram, a map in which the sizes of states have been rescaled according to their population. That is, states are drawn with a size proportional not to their sheer topographic acreage -- which has little to do with politics -- but to the number of their inhabitants, states with more people appearing larger than states with fewer, regardless of their actual area on the ground. Thus, on such a map, the state of Rhode Island, with its 1.1 million inhabitants, would appear about twice the size of Wyoming, which has half a million, even though Wyoming has 60 times the acreage of Rhode Island.

Here are the 2004 presidential election results on a population cartogram of this type:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2004/statecartredblue.png


but it looks ridiculous. If you're going to abstract something anyway, why not use a an easy shape to begin with.

[Nick Young]

If you find this very hard to read, you may want to see a physician or mental health specialist.
Are you still voting for Hillary Clinton?

[poido123]

If you find this very hard to read, you may want to see a physician or mental health specialist.


It's over Deuce.


SJW's like yourself can go back to the hole you crawled from and Trump will have you triggered for the next 4 years.



En-fcken-joy you soft ass nancy boy

[DeuceWallaces]

Also, I got that off google images after seeing it in a video.

I believe that's the 2012 map.

People have been talking about this since 2004 (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2004/)and one of the first ideas proposed was what is known as a cartogram.



but it looks ridiculous. If you're going to abstract something anyway, why not use a an easy shape to begin with.

Cartograms are not revolutionary. The squared one is much better than trying to make the states contiguous like in the '04 map.

[Patrick Chewing]

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[poido123]

Here's a better electoral map to use:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VGKsQTpfvc



Trump is going to curbstomp that evil c.unt

[Patrick Chewing]

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[FillJackson]

Cartograms are not revolutionary. The squared one is much better than trying to make the states contiguous like in the '04 map.

here's the WSJ's version.

http://graphics.wsj.com/elections/2016/2016-electoral-college-map-predictions/?ctaA

I don't like this map, but I like the page, as you scroll the page the map changes to match the text.

[FillJackson]

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I've learned this is called a Demers Cartogram.