mr_macaskill
US Presidential elections: are there really swing states?
I made this graph as a suggested improvement to one posted at eagereyes.org. See my comment there:
eagereyes.org/blog/2008/swing-states.html#comment-1050
By re-ordering the states by their previous consistency in voting for either the Republican or Democratic candidate (i.e. consistently Dem-leaning states are to the left, Republican to the right, and so-called "swing states" in the middle), useful patterns emerge. In the past, the whole nation has tended to swing from one side to the other, with a clear Republican predominance. Since 1992, however, there has been less of a national consensus. So the notion of swing states seems to be a useful concept only in the relatively recent past.
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US Presidential elections: are there really swing states?
I made this graph as a suggested improvement to one posted at eagereyes.org. See my comment there:
eagereyes.org/blog/2008/swing-states.html#comment-1050
By re-ordering the states by their previous consistency in voting for either the Republican or Democratic candidate (i.e. consistently Dem-leaning states are to the left, Republican to the right, and so-called "swing states" in the middle), useful patterns emerge. In the past, the whole nation has tended to swing from one side to the other, with a clear Republican predominance. Since 1992, however, there has been less of a national consensus. So the notion of swing states seems to be a useful concept only in the relatively recent past.
Made with DataGraph for OS X: www.visualdatatools.com/DataGraph/index.html