Southwest Virginia, 2008

[FloridaRepublican]

The atlas has McCain winning by substantial margins in 2008 in every county in southwest Virginia (https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=2008&fips=51&f=0&off=0&elect=0). However, on http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/comtes/2008.jpg and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_County,_Virginia#Politics, for example, the results are different, and Obama is shown to have won at least a couple of these counties. A small thing, but which one is right?

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Atlas is right. No way Obama won those counties in SW VA if he even lost the ones that voted for Kerry.

[RI]

Atlas is right.

[Joe Republic]

Whatever the case, that color scheme is awful.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Since were on Virgnia. When McCain led for a long time in the Virgnia raw vote count on election night 2008, was I the only one who thought McCain would carry the state?

No, I was thinking that for a while.

[CultureKing]

Another question about Virginia in 2008: If Virginia didn't have all of those separate town/cities within counties what would the county map look like? (in other words what would the map look like if the counties absorbed all of those pesky little towns/cities).

[minionofmidas]

Another question about Virginia in 2008: If Virginia didn't have all of those separate town/cities within counties what would the county map look like? (in other words what would the map look like if the counties absorbed all of those pesky little towns/cities).

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=7308.0

Not for 2008, alas.

[minionofmidas]

The atlas has McCain winning by substantial margins in 2008 in every county in southwest Virginia

The margin in Dickenson County was hardly substantial. [/nitpick] And in the city of Norton, not only was it just one vote, there was a swing in Obama's favor. Small as it is, it's probably more urbane than the rest of SW Virginia coal country. Not to exaggerate this, of course - Obama's was still the second-worst Democratic result in the town post-72.

[minionofmidas]

Another question about Virginia in 2008: If Virginia didn't have all of those separate town/cities within counties what would the county map look like? (in other words what would the map look like if the counties absorbed all of those pesky little towns/cities).

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=7308.0

Not for 2008, alas.

Apart from removing all the annoying little dots and squishes, the following changes to the Atlas map would occur:

Dinwiddie County from R50 to D70 (Petersburg has more people)
Norfolk County from D50 D60 (Chesapeake is the geographically largest part of it and is here treated as the base color)
Albemarle County from D50 to D60
Henrico County from D50 to D60
Spotsylvania County from R50 to D50
Southampton County from R50 to D50
Pittsylvania County from R60 to R50
Campbell County from R60 to R50
Rockingham County from R60 to R50
York County from R50 to R60 (no typo - Poquoson is that Republican, and it wasn't far off in the first place)

This is using all the corrections from the previous thread.