Wednesday Nov 03, 2004

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
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Another postscript.
Midterm elections are two years from now, that's really not a huge amount of time. Retaking the House or the Senate would be a big step towards restoring that whole checks and balances thing.
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If you really want to leave here's some of your options.

I prefer to try to change things from the inside

Although, this might make a good second option
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bean:
Yeah, I actually modified it so that the Bush to Kerry voting ratio was a red-purple-blue gradient instead of a red-white-blue gradient and then illustrated the population density by fading that to white. It's interesting, but I need higher quality maps (specifically, a population density map that doesn't actually have county borders on it, because that fucks with the values) before I can get something I'm comfortable posting on the boards.

Here, I'll show you what I've got now, though so you can get an idea of what I'm talking about. I had to blur the population density map to minimize the borders, and the result just made it a bit too tough to read.

Plus the maps don't line up quite right.

Ack. Maps a bit too big to be posted here...here's a link...
http://somethingfreaky.com/postpics/2004electionmap-popdensity.jpg

[Edited on Nov 04, 2004 11:09AM]
bean:
Yeah, you're right. I think both that map and the original map need to be viewed together to get a good, accurate picture of the distribution of the electorate, but I think the orthogonal representation might provide a better one-stop view of it. However, I don't really want to spend much more time on it. That one took me the better part of last night. wink

Oh, and I went ahead and posted that to the thread, since I'm not planning on doing a better version anytime soon, and it looks better now than it did at 4am this morning.

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