Found on Kerim's Wiki, this Electoral Vote Predictor maps out the latest poll data, state by state. You can see the raw state data here, and this total electoral graph is pretty informative as well.
If I were Tufte, though, I'd want to look at the map proportionally by the number of electoral votes. Fortunately there's a Java-powered map that does exactly that. Using that, I quickly created this (click for full strength):
But this ends up losing information; namely, how close the race is in each state. That requires a bit of photoshopping to accomplish:
Looking at this, it doesn't appear as close as a quick glance at the initial map would indicate. Comments?
[Update: I've corresponded with the guy behind electoral-vote.com, and he'd be interested in featuring this on his site. But it would require re-jiggering the Java app that generates the map. Source code here. Does anyone know enough Java to take this on?]
This is so cool, I really hope it gets reblogged or boing boinged or something. It's a very useful graphic.
Comment #2 :: link :: August 10, 2004 1:37 PM :: homepageMike, it's okay. College is over. You can sleep now. Sleep, my friend. Shhh.
Okay, now that Mike's asleep, I concur. This is wicked cool. Wouldn't it be rad if the newspaper-reading public were all engaged enough to absorb crazy shit like this on the front page of their papers? Or would that be some nightmarish world of Harvardite-polisci-hacker-infotrons gone mad? I might be marginally closer to the geo-political-cultural center if that were the case, so I'd probably get by all right.
More: grad school, coffee
Less: double-speak, campaign saccharine
I've added the requested functionality and I'm posting it on my site: http://www.wgbv.net/tpf/
The full link is http://www.wgbv.net/extra/ec.html
Thanks.
WGBV
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