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NYT: Real time Election map

61 points by jervisfm 14y ago

mtgx 14y ago
51 for Romney? Google shows 67 now: http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results Which one is more accurate/up to date?
- arrrg 14y ago
  They are both equally current. It comes down to who is more daring or conservative in making calls. All in all, however, that doesn’t matter. Those numbers are meaningless. Look at Florida and Ohio as well as all the other swing states. That’s all you need. If Obama wins Florida Romney has to win every other swing state. Obama winning Florida basically means game over for Romney. If Obama wins Ohio there are only few paths for Romney to win.
  - morsch 14y ago
    Is there a (reasonably) live map where the swing states are specially marked? I don't know them by heart and I don't want to have to look them up. Oh I just noticed the big board is what I want. I guess I don't really care about the geographics.
    - arrrg 14y ago
      This is very great for checking out paths to victory: http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/scenarios?hp http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/scenario...
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They might be re-configuring things on the fly ... I'm getting 500 Internal Server Error at the moment. This year is probably bringing election tracking sites way more traffic than any time in the past.
- brown9-2 14y ago
  I keep getting 503 (Service Unavailable) as well
sosuke 14y ago
NYT servers are getting a nice stress test.
- ejdyksen 14y ago
  It appears that elections.nytimes.com is actually hosted on AWS (in multiple regions using Route 53 latency based routing), so I imagine they have the ability to keep up with the load.
danso 14y ago
FYI, the 512 paths D3.js feature has the poll results feeding into it, albeit on a slight delay from the main map http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/scenarios?hp http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/scenario... I've seen a lot of election maps but I can't think of another informational graphic that so clearly explained what was at stake (the near live vote results are icing on the cake)...in fact it completely sucked the suspense out of watching the election results coming in...which would piss me off if I were a network tv pundit who makes money keeping people in needless suspense.
littlemerman 14y ago
nginx
curiousdannii 14y ago
Make sure you check the counties map! It's amazing to see how much of the area of the USA is red, even in states that went to Obama. But in the southeast states there seems to be a river of blue, just inland from the red coastal counties. Does anyone have any idea why that is? The exit polls show some very strong demographic divides too: http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/exit-polls http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/exit-pol...
- czr80 14y ago
  Here's one theory for that line of blue: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/10/02/162163801/obama-s-secret-weapon-in-the-south-small-dead-but-still-kickin http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/10/02/162163801/obama...
  - curiousdannii 14y ago
    Wow, who would've thought it all came back to plankton!
- RyanMcGreal 14y ago
  > It's amazing to see how much of the area of the USA is red, even in states that went to Obama. Cities vote Democract and rurals vote Republican. Since rurals are a lot more sparsely populated than cities, the area of the voting map looks overwhelmingly Republican. Related: http://www.urbanarchipelago.com/ http://www.urbanarchipelago.com/

61 points by jervisfm 14y ago

mtgx 14y ago

51 for Romney? Google shows 67 now: http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results Which one is more accurate/up to date?

arrrg 14y ago
They are both equally current. It comes down to who is more daring or conservative in making calls. All in all, however, that doesn’t matter. Those numbers are meaningless. Look at Florida and Ohio as well as all the other swing states. That’s all you need. If Obama wins Florida Romney has to win every other swing state. Obama winning Florida basically means game over for Romney. If Obama wins Ohio there are only few paths for Romney to win.
- morsch 14y ago
  Is there a (reasonably) live map where the swing states are specially marked? I don't know them by heart and I don't want to have to look them up. Oh I just noticed the big board is what I want. I guess I don't really care about the geographics.
  - arrrg 14y ago
    This is very great for checking out paths to victory: http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/scenarios?hp http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/scenario...
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______ 14y ago

They might be re-configuring things on the fly ... I'm getting 500 Internal Server Error at the moment. This year is probably bringing election tracking sites way more traffic than any time in the past.

brown9-2 14y ago
I keep getting 503 (Service Unavailable) as well

sosuke 14y ago

NYT servers are getting a nice stress test.

ejdyksen 14y ago
It appears that elections.nytimes.com is actually hosted on AWS (in multiple regions using Route 53 latency based routing), so I imagine they have the ability to keep up with the load.

danso 14y ago

FYI, the 512 paths D3.js feature has the poll results feeding into it, albeit on a slight delay from the main map http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/scenarios?hp http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/scenario... I've seen a lot of election maps but I can't think of another informational graphic that so clearly explained what was at stake (the near live vote results are icing on the cake)...in fact it completely sucked the suspense out of watching the election results coming in...which would piss me off if I were a network tv pundit who makes money keeping people in needless suspense.

littlemerman 14y ago

nginx

curiousdannii 14y ago

Make sure you check the counties map! It's amazing to see how much of the area of the USA is red, even in states that went to Obama. But in the southeast states there seems to be a river of blue, just inland from the red coastal counties. Does anyone have any idea why that is? The exit polls show some very strong demographic divides too: http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/exit-polls http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/exit-pol...

czr80 14y ago
Here's one theory for that line of blue: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/10/02/162163801/obama-s-secret-weapon-in-the-south-small-dead-but-still-kickin http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/10/02/162163801/obama...
- curiousdannii 14y ago
  Wow, who would've thought it all came back to plankton!
RyanMcGreal 14y ago
> It's amazing to see how much of the area of the USA is red, even in states that went to Obama. Cities vote Democract and rurals vote Republican. Since rurals are a lot more sparsely populated than cities, the area of the voting map looks overwhelmingly Republican. Related: http://www.urbanarchipelago.com/ http://www.urbanarchipelago.com/