day 13: illinois

[minionofmidas]

Republicans have been improving downstate and Dems in the Chicagoland suburbs over the past two decades or so...the Republicans' problem (apart from Chicago o/c) would appear to be the declining demographic importance of downstate.

[minionofmidas]

There'sthree counties shifting Rep-to-Dem between the first and second maps, and Chicago is darker on the lower map, and the lower map is 2004, and the downstate is bleeding relevance, so obviously the second map.

[minionofmidas]

There'sthree counties shifting Rep-to-Dem between the first and second maps, and Chicago is darker on the lower map, and the lower map is 2004, and the downstate is bleeding relevance, so obviously the second map.

I think you're wrong.  The top map is 2004, but the bottom map is 1988.

Yeah, I reversed the terms first and second, upper and lower throughout the post...how'd that happen?