That strip of land at the lower left could define the borders of the new nation of ‘Californezuela.’
Wow! Isn’t it amazing how effective the Russo-FBI conspiracy to leak genuine Democrat emails was?
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That strip of land at the lower left could define the borders of the new nation of ‘Californezuela.’
Wow! Isn’t it amazing how effective the Russo-FBI conspiracy to leak genuine Democrat emails was?
This is a great map and the best one I’ve seen characterizing the Trump-Clinton split. For all the blather about “she actually won”, there are very few areas in white (denoting 90th percentile voting for Clinton); the predominant color is green (50th percentile for Clinton). It really demonstrates how shallow the depth of her support actually was.
As someone on Twitter responded to yet another “she won the popular vote by the greatest margin ever” claim, “Maybe, but Trump won the popular vote of more states.”
Clinton won CA by 4+ million. Her popular vote win was all in one state.
If I were a young politically-ambitious Democrat with an eye towards future high office, I would find that a damning graphic of the future. It’s even more damning than the famous New Yorker view of Beyond the Hudson.
I thought this map was insightful. And it helps illuminate the one above.
What’s that thing the russian alphabet is scripted in again, btw?
Damn it! In Cyrillic script!
Even here, it’s compromised now!
*vanishes*
A great but pointless visualization. It implies that land mass votes. That big empty oceanic area out West isn’t really “Trump Land”, it’s just empty. People vote and in the Electoral college, they vote by state. To then break the win-lose area down by county is pointless since counties come in all shapes and sizes. It might make more sense to break it down by congressional district. Gerrymanders and all.
This reminds me of a conference (National League Of Cities, or similar) that a former councilperson in my hometown attended circa 2009 in which then-Secretary Of Energy Steven Chu was rambling on about all the possible places that the Obama Administration could put all their green energy projects (wind turbines & solar panels). According to her, he put his hand over the map of the interior West and essentially said they could all go “out there” because “no one lives out there”. (What he didn’t mention is that as far as the Obama Admin was concerned, no one important lived “out there”.)
Well, I can assure both Dr Chu and everyone else who doesn’t live “out there” that people do live “out there”—myself being one of them—and we are not any less important than anyone who lives near the rarified air of the coasts and the land out here isn’t “empty” (contrary to what some New Yorkers, for example, might think); it just isn’t as densely populated. The entire attitude that there’s just empty space out in The Places Who Couldn’t Be Bothered To Vote For The Most Deserving 21st Century Queen is precisely why Donald Trump is PEOTUS.
That is exactly, mostly, how the Electoral College is determined now. But that still doesn’t accurately demonstrate the support that Donald Trump received nor the lack of support Hillary Clinton (failed to) receive. My congressional district comprises 23 counties, only one of which voted for Clinton.
Mapping by county/parish more accurately reflects actual voting patterns. Since congressional districts are limited to 435 plus the non-state delegates, there won’t be any more representation, just shifts in the current representation. (Colorado is expected to pick up another congressional seat after the 2020 Census, and New York and/or Pennsylvania most like will lose one or more, for example.) Doing it in that manner demonstrates that Hillary Clinton’s support, generally, came in only very large urban areas (in addition that most of her popular vote lead, as tnnsne1 noted, came in just one state). There were only four states which voted for her in their entirety, but a fair number more in which she won the Electoral College vote. Counties do come in all shapes and sizes, but then, so do states. Many states are divided politically in ways which taking them in their entirety isn’t isn’t an accurate representation, either.
This climate-change afflicted map isn’t drawn to scale. The formerly Cascades and The Rockies should be the only things still sticking out of the water. Bye Florida!