www-personal.umich.edu - 11/7/2008
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Email: Thanks to everyone who wrote in about the maps. This page has had over half a million hits this week and I've received so much email that I may not be able to reply to everyone, but I much appreciate all your comments and suggestions. Many of the things people have been asking about are ...
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uglychart.com: a blog about stocks —
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Election maps - politics data maps
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Cartographs of 2008 US Election Results
The Big Picture —
... in which the sizes of states are rescaled according to their population. States drawn with size proportional not to their acreage but to the number of their inhabitants. On such a map, for example, the state of Rhode Island, with its 1.1 million inhabitants, would appear about twice the size of Wyoming, which has half a million, even though Wyoming has 60 times the acreage of Rhode Island.
The difference between geography and population can be quite significant, as these election maps reveal:
Election results by county
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Election 2008 In Brief
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For Chesapeake's Chief, Some Big Money in Maps
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