Another 100 Pres-by-CD Results Available - 100 CDs Left (We Need Your Help!)

[DavidNYC]

Thanks to the tremendous hard work of a lot of people, the Swing State Project is proud to announce the release of another 100 districts' worth of presidential election results by CD:

http://www.swingstateproject.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4287

You can find a permalink to all the districts we've done so far (about 330) here:

http://www.swingstateproject.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4161

Also, we're working very hard to try to finish the final 100 CDs. The problem is that we need precinct-level data for the relevant counties (about 100 of them), and none of it appears to be available online. This means we need to start making phone calls to county Boards of Election. If you'd like to help with our project, please see this post:

http://www.swingstateproject.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4289

Thanks so much!

P.S. On a related note, I'm curious to know the status of the A2K8PPP.

[DavidNYC]

from your site:

That's fine, but regarding districts such as IL-15, IL-18, IN-9, PA-12 that are so close (and have missing counties), what process do you use to predict them voting a certain way?

For the finer details, I'll actually have to suggest that you contact Crisitunity (his e-mail is on the sidebar of the site), since he might not see a comment in the post given how old it is. I think, though, that in the case of the very tiny counties (or, more likely, the tiny bits of counties), those are simply left out rather than predicted.

So if , say, 200K people voted in a race and one part of one county accounts for 200 registered voters, that will barely show up in the tenths of a percent. Given that this cannot be a perfectly exact exercise for a number of reasons, it's probably safe only to view most of these numbers as accurate to whole percentages.