Electoral Maps

Check out this really cool website comparing electoral maps from June 4, 2008- today.

These maps can show us how the opinions of some states have changed opinion- turning them from Democratic to Republican or Republican to Democratic. The maps are interesting, as they can show how the polls are changing every day, and how each state is being influenced by the candidates. For example, the state of New Mexico starts out as a "Weak McCain state", then a "Barely McCain" state, then a "Barely Obama" state, then back to a "Barely McCain" state, then finally a "Barely Obama state."

Here is another cool map:

This map is a cartogram depicting how many electoral votes each state has, the percentage for McCain, percentage for Obama, how the state voted in previous elections, which which party the state is (in majority), and whether it is a strongly or weakly supporting state of the candidate in that party. This map is important to really understand how important each state's vote is, and which are the states that the candidates would want to impact most.