Latest electoral charts

[ciphergoth]

So you know why I'm so chipper :-) I'm working on my Election Day web application.

In order to understand these diagrams you must understand the electoral college.

This is the states ranked in order of how they're doing in the polls at the moment; the width of each states represents the number of votes it has in the electoral college. According to the diagram the easiest path to the Presidency for McCain is to throw all of Missouri, Ohio, Nevada, Colorado, Florida, Maine, New Mexico, and Virginia into voting his way.

The X-position of each state shows how they voted in 2004 - so blue states Kerry won, and red states Bush won. The Y-position shows how it's currently polling. The states in the top left-hand corner are the ones Bush won that Obama is poised to take from him. The size of the state reflects its electoral vote share.

Updated to add this chart from fivethirtyeight.com:

Comments

[palmer1984.livejournal.com]

I find it very confusing that the republican votes are denoted in red :).

Awesome graph!

[haggis.livejournal.com]

Americans are ... different from the rest of us.

(Said tongue-in-cheek)