Shaded Electoral Maps

So, after the 2000 election, a lot of people felt robbed, or divided or somesuch. To make themselves feel better, they made lots of different electoral maps by county and population and electoral vote count. Everyone felt so good this time round after the election that no one bothered.

I miss them.

So here's my first effort. Maps shaded from blue to red by how much they voted for McCain or Obama. I took the base map from Wikipedia and the full blue and red from the NY Times. Percentages in both are taken from just Obama and McCain's votes, ie: no third party or write in votes counted for the purposes of this map. The first one is done by increments of 5 percent on an interval from 90% to Obama to 90% to McCain. The second map is done on an interval of 60 to 60 with divs at ten, two, five, and seven.




The first one was mostly purple and didn't make it very far into the red zone, so I ended up making these two. The first covers all the range of democratic territories (DC went 93% for Obama) and the second one only covers the range covered by republican territories (Wyoming went 67% to McCain)