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Paul Crowley ([personal profile] ciphergoth) wrote2008-10-23 04:39 pm
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Does my new chart make sense?

Imagine for a moment that it's 2:30 AM London time on November 5th and like me, you've stayed up late to watch the US elections. Six states have been called so far: Vermont and Virginia for Obama, and Indiana, Georgia, South Carolina and Kentucky for McCain. You go to my election page and see this diagram:



Does it make sense to you? How could I improve it?

thanks!

Update: wow, a flood of very helpful comments, thanks so much, keep them coming!

[identity profile] ciphergoth.livejournal.com 2008-10-23 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Because Bush won it in 2004, so Obama has claimed a red state.

[identity profile] lizw.livejournal.com 2008-10-24 09:29 am (UTC)(link)
That wasn't clear to me either, and threw me off in trying to work out which were the called and which were the uncalled states, so I definitely think it would be helpful to have a different indicator for that. Once you have that, I think the white lines may be sufficient to indicate called vs. uncalled - I thought that was what they meant before I noticed Virginia in red, but then I got very confused and starting doubting whether I was interpreting any of the chart correctly at all.