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For anyone who wants to do this, the data's available: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/nov/07/us-2012-election-county-results-download http://www.

• hammock 14y ago
  I'm going to do it right now!
• pserwylo 14y ago
  I stumbled upon the same dataset, so did the following map: http://i.imgur.com/8YjOg.png http://i.imgur.com/8YjOg.png Here is some notes: https://gist.github.com/4034954 https://gist.github.com/4034954 Edit: If anything, I'd say that the counties themselves are more divided than I thought. The one which surprises me the most is the deep south of texas, which is quite blue. Also, I do not claim that I did this flawlessly, there is a chance I stuffed up and it is not showing the right data, but I don't really have the time to play with it for too long :)
  • mikeash 14y ago
    The first thing I noticed on your map (which is really nice, by the way) was that it's far more divisive than the per-state version. Most interesting. I think this just highlights what people have been saying for quite a while now, that the political divide in this country isn't red states versus blue states, but urban versus rural. If you go to a level that separates those, as per-county does but per-state doesn't, you see a much bigger divide.
  • jlarocco 14y ago
    South Texas results aren't too surprising. There's a huge Hispanic population down there.
    • pserwylo 14y ago
      Ah, of course. Thanks for pointing that out.