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Election 2008: Oh Them Changes
I’m a sucker for maps and just the other day was pouring through a (real) copy of Mercator’s historic 1638 Atlas Novus, but there’s big fun in this map, too. The so-called Republican “L” predominates and begs the question as to whether the Democrats will be able to make inroads into the L next year.
Rhodes Cook takes a crack at answering that question at Real Clear Politics.
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5 Responses to “Election 2008: Oh Them Changes”
Shaun: the last few days have had maps featured, yet they are squeezed so tiny that the text tends to blur- here or in the Mideast one. Is this just a ‘shrinkage problem’ or can the maps be resolved better? The source map, as example, is larger and clearer.
The DNC has a funny way of gearing up for Florida–by completely disenfrachising Florida Democratic Party voters from the primary process.
Cosmo:
At this juncture, image resolution issues are going to be what they are. Apologies.
The maps actually shown why the Republican Party will soon be irrelevant. There is not a single state that Kerry won in 2004 that the Republicans have a reasonable chance of winning in 2008. Yet there are many states that the Democrats are now favored to win.
I believe that the tracking polls that start after both conventions will show that the Democratic nominee (Senator Clinton) will be so far ahead that the everyone will know how will be the next president well before the election. The better question is how will such a poor performance by the Republican’s presidential nominee affect the races lower down on the ticket.
You might want to look at this Sabato post I put up the other day:
http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/14722/sabatos-crystal-ball-a-map-in-flux/