States Voting Together 2008 version.

[jimrtex]

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[Хahar 🤔]

Excellent!

What program did you use?

[jimrtex]

Excellent!

What program did you use?

Paint. 

You could probably automate it a little bit with a spread sheet.  The states are ordered based on the basis of voting with the national winner, with the later elections always having precedence.

Each state has a channel 12 pixels wide, with 8 pixels used for the actual coloring.  So for example the 29 States that voted for Obama share a channel 29 x 12 pixels wide (0-348), but the red area is an area 29 x 8 pixels wide centered within that area (58 - 290).

A result of the above is that when states split apart, the outside edges of the split groups shifts 2 pixels times the number of states in the opposite group.  So for example when the 9 states that voted Bush, Obama, split 7 (Bush, Bush, Obama) and 2 (Gore, Bush, Obama), the left edge of the Bush 2000 states moves outward 2 x 2 pixels, while the right edge of the Gore 2000 states (NM and IA) moves outward 7 x 2 pixels.

The 20 States that voted Kerry, Obama (NH through DC) were copied from the 2004 chart.  Similarly, AL and MS didn't change once they had split off.  But the rightmost (Republican branch) had to be redone because of Virginia (which had been with OK), and Indiana (which had been with SD) switched.

[Mr. Morden]

As an aside, the only two states that have voted the same in every presidential *primary* for both parties from 1976-2008 are Florida and Ohio.  They voted for the eventual nominee in every primary for both parties, except 1984 (Hart) and 2008 (Clinton).  They split in the 1972 Democratic primaries though, when Florida went for Wallace and Ohio went for Humphrey.

[pbrower2a]

One little point: I figure that NE-02 would have voted with IN for a very long time -- right?

[Nym90]

One little point: I figure that NE-02 would have voted with IN for a very long time -- right?

Probably, but Nebraska has only used the district system of EV allocation since 1992, so results by CD before that are not readily available.

[pbrower2a]

One little point: I figure that NE-02 would have voted with IN for a very long time -- right?

Probably, but Nebraska has only used the district system of EV allocation since 1992, so results by CD before that are not readily available.

Before 1992 its votes would always have been identical with those of Nebraska, and Nebraska would have voted for Republican nominees except when LBJ and perhaps FDR were President -- much like Indiana except, of course, 2008.

[Antonio the Sixth]

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Good job !

[Antonio the Sixth]

Bumping this too for interest.