Miles' Election Map Thread

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Congratulations, Miles, you've done some great work here. Could we have some insets of the larger cities (NOLA, Red Stick, Shreveport, etc.)?

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I love you, Miles.

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How narrow is that little connection that keeps this district contiguous?

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Etheridge also got a pretty decent win the new 7th:



Johnston county provided much of Etheridge's winning margin; without it, he still would have carried the district but only with 42.5% to Dalton's 41.5%.

Yeah baby! Who was the third candidate in this primary? where was his strength concentrated?

[homelycooking]

Oh, that's gorgeous. Well done. (Can I recommend color-striping the tied precincts, though?)

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An aesthetic tip: The shades of green are not terribly distinct at the <50% level, you may want to use a different color. When I make a series of related strength maps, I prefer to use the same color for all of them - usually blue or red.

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You're the best, Miles.

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If there are any other insomniacs creative souls like myself who want to make precinct maps for NC, I hope this will help.

For all our sakes, Miles, I hope your insomnia is never cured.

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This has actually been in the works for a while; I just recently compiled all these maps into a coherent chart. This is West Virginia's Congressional history from 1952 to 2012. 1952 was the first year that Robert Byrd was elected to Congress.

Oho! The gauntlet is thrown and the battle joined.

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Gray precincts in Vernon Parish?

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Must be nice to be making precinct maps of a state that didn't redraw its precinct boundaries after the Census. Jealous...

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Ok, here's the plan for the next few weeks (or months): Hopefully, I'll begin rolling out Pres-by-CD maps of NC within the next day or so. I'll start with CD1 then go numerically until the entire map is done. I'll probably do the same for the Congressional, LG and Gubernatorial races (probably in that order). I'll also probably work in some LA maps along the way!

Also, I was looking back and I need to make a few relatively minor revisions to the Perdue/McCrory state map I posted over the summer.

Oh it must be so nice to work with official statewide data. I'd really like to make the maps I do without spending months and hundreds of dollars chasing county/municipal officials around for photocopies of their barely legible, hand-written canvass reports.

You're a lucky bastard, Miles.

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Cartographic leadership? Undoubtedly. But I don't think the honorable Senator was referring to that.