Muddy America : Color Balancing The Election Map - Infographic
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It’s not what it looks like.
Different graphs are designed for different purposes. The graph above is a county-level winner-takes-all map. I’ll call it a County Winner map for short. Scientists use it to quickly see which way the counties went in an election. While there is arguably no better map for seeing who won in which county, this map can be misleading when used for other purposes. We need to be aware of two of its characteristics:
It doesn’t express the relative voting populations between each county. Instead, it can make people feel like all of the land has the same population.
It’s not designed to express the margin of victory within each county. It shows who won in a county, even if they won by just one vote. It’s a winner-takes-all graph, after all.
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