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Adam Griffin
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« on: February 21, 2015, 10:03:43 PM »
« edited: February 23, 2015, 03:06:09 PM by NE Lt. Governor Griffin »

IN PROGRESS:

Full-size: http://i.imgur.com/omMzfMd.png

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« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2015, 10:22:04 PM »

How are you doing county level results?
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« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2015, 01:26:56 AM »

Nice work! 
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« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2015, 03:44:08 AM »

How are you doing county level results?
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« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2015, 05:52:10 AM »

Oh that looks great!

The JCL strength in the coastal Northeast is very interesting...
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« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2015, 07:57:03 AM »

I love it!!!
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« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2015, 10:12:29 AM »


The basic formulation is who got what percentage of the vote in the state. From there, I take a gander at real-life data/presidential results and then will modify the results to a degree if the Atlasian region is wildly different from that Atlasian state's votes. So for instance, MS has some Maxwell counties even though 100% of the vote was for Bore but Nebraska does not.
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« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2015, 11:13:51 AM »

Oh that looks great!

The JCL strength in the coastal Northeast is very interesting...

Figured my strength would be more in the IN, KY, IL, OH area.
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« Reply #8 on: February 22, 2015, 12:34:58 PM »

Get a life

Never get a live, Griff. We NEED your maps!
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« Reply #9 on: February 22, 2015, 12:42:47 PM »
« Edited: February 22, 2015, 12:44:33 PM by 🍁 Hatman »

How come Gatineau is the only part of Quebec to be declared? Wink

Also, why hasn't Rainy River District declared?
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« Reply #10 on: February 22, 2015, 12:47:21 PM »

How come Gatineau is the only part of Quebec to be declared? Wink

Also, why hasn't Rainy River District declared?

1. Enthusiastic poll-watchers? Cheesy

2. OK, I got nothing for that - no clue how I missed that. Tongue
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« Reply #11 on: February 22, 2015, 01:36:25 PM »

I'm sure JCL would win his home county (Howard County Indiana)rather than coloring it max blue
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« Reply #12 on: February 22, 2015, 01:47:34 PM »

I'm sure JCL would win his home county (Howard County Indiana)rather than coloring it max blue

This is Atlasia, not the real world. Our political geography makes absolutely no sense when compared to the U.S.
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« Reply #13 on: February 22, 2015, 01:57:02 PM »
« Edited: February 22, 2015, 11:39:40 PM by NE Lt. Governor Griffin »

I'm sure JCL would win his home county (Howard County Indiana)rather than coloring it max blue

I mean I don't creep on all of you guys to know where your home counties are...and yes, #AtlasiaDifferencesWhenItsConvenient.
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« Reply #14 on: February 22, 2015, 02:16:16 PM »

Nice work!
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« Reply #15 on: February 22, 2015, 02:40:15 PM »

I'm sure JCL would win his home county (Howard County Indiana)rather than coloring it max blue

This is Atlasia, not the real world. Our political geography makes absolutely no sense when compared to the U.S.

I'm being a goof Goldwater.
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« Reply #16 on: February 22, 2015, 09:39:33 PM »

How come Gatineau is the only part of Quebec to be declared? Wink

Also, why hasn't Rainy River District declared?

1. Enthusiastic poll-watchers? Cheesy

2. OK, I got nothing for that - no clue how I missed that. Tongue

b/c I love being a stickler, it also appears you have different parts of the Kitikmeot Region coloured different shades (mainland vs the islands/Boothia peninsula). Cheesy
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« Reply #17 on: February 22, 2015, 11:39:25 PM »
« Edited: February 23, 2015, 03:06:20 PM by NE Lt. Governor Griffin »

http://i.imgur.com/omMzfMd.png

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« Reply #18 on: February 22, 2015, 11:53:48 PM »

I can see that you tried with Canada, but I am left scratching my head with some areas. Explanations would be nice.
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« Reply #19 on: February 23, 2015, 12:20:27 AM »

I can see that you tried with Canada, but I am left scratching my head with some areas. Explanations would be nice.

It's the same as in parts of the US: either it's based on natural voting trends, the voters residing in those provinces, or

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« Reply #20 on: February 23, 2015, 03:05:52 PM »

I wanted to elaborate more last night, but I got frustrated because when I try to modify a quote with emojis in it, my browser refuses to let me type anything!

For starters, Canadian territories in Atlasia are sparsely populated. They are also reflective solely of the Atlasians living there, and not the Canadians themselves (we don't own the provinces). As such, election results may appear different than real-life and different from how Canadians as a whole would vote.

Whenever I filled in a given territory, there were a couple of ways that I considered before doing so.

If the territory had a balance of voters roughly equivalent to real-life presidential election results (examples are California, Wisconsin, Michigan, New Jersey, etc), then I did my best to keep their results in line with that. In some cases, they were slightly altered (for instance, WI is a bit more right-leaning here because it was 50/50 instead of 53/46).

If the territory had no population, I considered the region it was in, the surrounding territories and its real-life electoral climate. Depending on these metrics, I made a decision as to how best to proceed. Usually, real life electoral climate was ditched first as an absolute if the region and/or surrounding areas would make it look odd, but patterns were often maintained (every county may have just shifted 30 points left or right, in other words).

If the territory had a voter make-up that did not resemble its real-life electoral trends, then we just went with the in-game results solely.

However, I did try to make sure that in a lot of these territories, there were at least some "competitive" areas, as no territory is obviously going to go 100% for a candidate IRL. It was here that I again relied upon what the region and to a lesser extent the surrounding territories looked like. For instance, Mississippi has some D-R counties because the South and states that border MS are quite conservative more or less. Likewise, Pennsylvania was 75% Bore at the polls but because the NE is a relative swing-region, its results do not reflect that. For all of this, let's assume that all of the voters have a slightly different preference depending on the state than the voters in the game (because our sample sizes are too damn small Tongue).
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« Reply #21 on: February 23, 2015, 03:47:55 PM »

Quebec is the first thing that jumped out at me. it doesn't seem like a place where conservatives would want to register.
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« Reply #22 on: February 23, 2015, 04:03:32 PM »

Quebec is the first thing that jumped out at me. it doesn't seem like a place where conservatives would want to register.

well, the only voter registered in quebec is poirot, so…
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« Reply #23 on: February 23, 2015, 04:45:21 PM »

Stop criticizing the map and enjoy it. Y'all cannot be pleased.
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« Reply #24 on: February 23, 2015, 04:54:33 PM »

The main thing I'm getting from this map is that we need to invade and annex the Bahamas.
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