How did you discover the Atlas?

[DPKdebator]

How did you initially discover this website, the US Election Atlas? I found it while I was in fifth grade, when I googled "alternate us states" (US geography was the first kind of geography I was interested in, then it switched to the world as a whole and now it's back to American geography) and found this thread from Antonio V; which interested me but I did not really check out the rest of the site until after this year's election, and I finally decided to make an account at the beginning of December.

[ApatheticAustrian]

got crazy about not-very-logical-poll results a few months ago and looked for a page which could make sense out of it .....and found politics heaven in the process.

[Virginiá]

I think the first time I can remember is googling' "Virginia trending Democratic" and then I noticed a lot of searches about political trends had results from this forum.

[LLR]

Wanted to find an electoral college calculator with third parties and found this horrible wonderful place in the process

[The_Doctor]

Been using the site since 2000. I didn't discover the forums until 2008, or so.

[The Other Castro]

I was looking for fictional timelines for the future 2016 election (back in 2014), ended up finding someone's TL here, and got interested in the rest of the site over time.

[Mr. Smith]

Googled "Goldwater vs McGovern".

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

I think I found it shortly after the 2000 election when looking for results.

[President Johnson]

I was looking for some "what-if scenario" and found an electoral map in the Google image section.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

My real life friend, and Atlas poster, J.J., turned me on to this place.......blame him!

[Frodo]

I was linked to it from another political forum (this was back in 2004).  I forget the name of the website, but it was dominated by conservatives and libertarians.  

[Sir John Johns]

I was searching detailed information in English (because information in French was frustratingly poor) about the 2011 Danish parliamentary election and found Hashemite’s blog, which linked me to this website. I lurked the forum for about 2 years before making an account.

[nclib]

Around 2000 (before the election) I was looking at a page called statistical resources on the web, which linked to uselectionatlas.org, and I found and joined the (old) forum in 2002.

[Meclazine for Israel]

Searched for political forums on Google because i was fascinated with how actual American's were digesting the Donald Trump phenomenon.

At first i hit a couple of forums where the Trump hacks had moved in so it was impossible to have a normal conversation.

The discussions at the Atlas forums appear to last longer before disintegrating into personal attacks.

And we have BTRD. Enough said.

[OneJ]

I found this site by looking up "MS becoming Democratic" then stumbled on one of the threads about the topic arounfd spring time of last year, but I didn't officially register until that summer.

[Intell]

McGovern vs Mondale, or googled something like that.

[VPH]

Looking for some senate result maps

[Nym90]

In 1999 I was searching the internet for election maps/info while in college and came across it, and it was true love at first sight.

18 years later, we're still going strong.

[Enduro]

Searched for 2016 timelines in 2013, lingered for a bit, and later forgot this existed. Around the time of the Midterm election I remembered this site, and lingered for awhile again. Finally joined in 2015, but didn't post for like a year later.

[Leinad]

I actually think I was linked here from Wikipedia while reading about some election.

Same for me. you Wikipedia!

Also, this seems more like a Forum Community thread, correct?

[Grumpier Than Thou]

I googled "political forums"

[fhtagn]

Mr. Reactionary convinced me to join after hearing me complain about political facebook groups I was in.

[MarkD]

I found a link on Ballot Access News.

[Confused Democrat]

I googled something along the lines of "us election forum" during the primary season and clicked on the first link.

[TDAS04]

Option 1.  I think I googled something like "Mississippi white voters Obama" and stumbled across a thread.  It was probably 3-4 years before I joined.