And holy hell, Tennessee! A sea of blue!
Gore exaggerated the trend somewhat, but the '04-'12 version of this map was pretty severe as well.
You can pretty much see the outline of the old TN-04 with those dark navy counties.
04-12 seems to confirm a Romney suburban bounce in parts of the NE. Of course it's overshadowed in NYC by 9/11 being compared against Sandy.
Yeah, interesting things in the northeast. CT changes quite a bit between the maps. Its all blue in 00-12 but about evenly split in 04-12. Maine is pretty much the opposite, especially in the north.
AZ sort of baffled me. This map skips over 2008, so its not like it was home state effected by McCain or anything.
That surprised me, too. FL is also baffling.
Note that this strongly suggests Republican problems in CO, NH and about half of VA are actually understated by 2008 and 2012 due to Romney and McCain being non-Southern suburbanites.
I actually think CO looks a bit better than it actually is for Democrats. Yeah its good overall, but Nader was taking 10% or more in some of the (now) strongly D counties west of Denver. I'm not sure to what extent that influences things.
I think thats also why MT and ID, even AK, look so good for Democrats.
Thanks a lot, Miles! Both maps are very useful: one more on macro, another - on microlevel))))
