election results cartogram

[Carl Tollander]

Mark Newman's 2008 presidential election cartogram page is available.

    http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008



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[Steve Smith]

Carl Tollander wrote:

Mark Newman's 2008 presidential election cartogram page is available.

   http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008

I'm a big fan of Cartograms for lots of reasons... this one is too good of a Caricature of our country!



I find an uncanny resemblance to a some kind of sea-creature.

New England => thick-necked, Big-Headed creature.
California => Ass-end.
Florida =>  Engorged Penis.
Deep South and Plains West => Bowels

- Steve


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[jdcohn]

I was watching the BBC live video coverage of the election last night and they periodically showed the
simplest form of a the map morphed by population size (i.e. only red and blue per state).  They also
had a touch-screen based map which the newscaster manipulated for getting the latest results.

Judith Cohn

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[Richard Harris-3]

Hey Judith,

I noticed that too. The other highlight of the BBC evening was Gore  
Vidal's interview. Not meaningful at all, but quite funny.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=k2L8iUHZ2sY

Many folks at the expat election night party in London, a couple of  
thousand of us, were laughing and cheering on Vidal.

On 5 Nov 2008, at 20:52, [hidden email] wrote:

> I was watching the BBC live video coverage of the election last  
> night and they periodically showed the
> simplest form of a the map morphed by population size (i.e. only red  
> and blue per state).  They also
> had a touch-screen based map which the newscaster manipulated for  
> getting the latest results.
>
> Judith Cohn
>
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