{"id":6360,"date":"2004-09-15T09:41:09","date_gmt":"2004-09-15T16:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/09\/15\/map-the-vote.html"},"modified":"2004-09-15T09:41:09","modified_gmt":"2004-09-15T16:41:09","slug":"map_the_vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/15\/map_the_vote.html","title":{"rendered":"Map the vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"electoralmap.gif\"<\/a>Here’s a fun map that (a) charts current electoral votes to Kerry or Bush based on the most recent polls in each state, and (b) represents each state in size<\/a> based on the number of electoral votes it carries.<\/p>\n

I’m more interested in it based on presentation than on the actual content it currently carries — it’s still way too early, IMO, to pay much attention to polls (esp. polls of different natures). Here’s a geographically accurate map<\/a> of the same info.<\/p>\n

(via J-Walk<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a fun map that (a) charts current electoral votes to Kerry or Bush based on the most recent polls in each state, and (b) represents each state in size…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2004"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31269,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/07\/viewed-askewed.html","url_meta":{"origin":6360,"position":0},"title":"Viewed Askewed","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Nov-12 11:23am","format":false,"excerpt":"The \"Unskewed Polls\" site, led by Dean Chambers, was clung to desperately by a number of GOP partisans, and was a keystone of the arguments by folks like George Will and Donald Trump and Bryan Fischer that Romney would win in a landslide of 300 ECV or more.Granted, there was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7091,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/31\/proportionate_v.html","url_meta":{"origin":6360,"position":1},"title":"Proportionate voting","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 31-Oct-04 6:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It makes you wonder. 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