October 24, 2008
Peeling Back Paint-by-Numbers Politics
States are all 'red' or 'blue' on Election Day, but a statistician says the map is more complex
As they basked in triumph after the 2004 election, conservative pundits often pointed to maps that depicted the counties won by George W. Bush and John Kerry. Although President Bush won the national popular vote by just 2.4 percentage points, those county-by-county maps revealed a great mass of Republican red, with Kerry winning densely populated enclaves, mostly on the coasts.
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