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huffingtonpost.com - 11/4/2008

Rove, Nate Silver Maps Predict Obama Blowout

— huffingtonpost.com — On his website, Republican strategist Karl Rove writes : The final Rove & Co. electoral map of... the 2008 election cycle points to a 338-200 Barack Obama electoral vote victory over John McCain tomorrow, the largest electoral margin since 1996. All remaining toss-up states have been ... (more) Rove, Nate Silver Maps Predict Obama Blowout

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Maps
The Monkey Cage — 2004: 2008: Squint really, really hard and maybe you can help me understand what John Judis is talking about when he calls this election a “radical realignment” that “is predicated on a change in political demography and geography.” See also #5 in Andy’s post. (More to come on this subject.) [For the maps, see here. I love these!]

Where Geography Meets Demography and Introduces History
Neptunus Lex — ... Ecce: The electoral impact of the densely populated “coastal elites” and urban dwellers on our recent national elections. ...

The New Map
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The Archipelego
Matthew Yglesias — ... It’s interesting that even when you break down to the granular county level the Republican parts of the country form a largely contiguous bloc while Obamaland is an incredibly fragment archipelego: ...

What Red State Explains and Doesn't Explain
TPMCafe — ... For example, here is Mark Newman's 2008 map where a county that 50-50 split between Obama and McCain is set to purple. Even in solidly blue 2008, the map is much more red than blue because Republicans do so well in low-density interior regions. ...

The Republican Strategy To Alienate Minorities And Non-Southerners Continues To Pay Dividends
Oliver Willis — 2008 Election Map, Proportional To Electoral Votes (via) Keep it up guys. McCain won the South in November, but Obama swept the rest of the country by an even bigger margin. The same pattern holds now for House and Senate seats. Republicans may continue to win governorships in Democratic-leaning states, but in congressional and presidential elections the geographic divides are sizable. Brownstein reeled off a list of statistics that all arrived at the same place: The South now accounts for a greater share of ...