Electoral college

[ciphergoth]

After watching far, far too much West Wing (ie all of it - finally reached the end which is both bad and good) I created this image to visualize the results of the 2004 election. I want something like this updated live for 2008, with states not yet called ranked based on predictions.



You'll need to view it full size to properly see what's going on.

(updated image with new algorithm for placing labels)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Nice graph! It's a bear of a dataset to try to represent visually. I like how you can do things with this like "how many votes would need to be swung to reverse the results of the election" by just comparing the amount of red area to the left of the 50% line versus other imbalances. Neat.