I hate the coverage of the Super Tuesday results. We get stupid orange/purple
maps showing who won the majority, completely obscuring the size of
the majority, the number of delegates, or the number of people who
voted. Inspired by Robert
Venderbei's red/blue maps I tried to do a better choropleth map.
Above is my work-in-progress. The more red the state, the more of the
vote Obama got. You can view a live
map, also a map of percent
of delegates. According to NPR, Obama got fewer
delegates than votes.
This visualization is not very useful, honestly, I don't like the constraints of the map drawing tool I'm using. Can anyone suggest better simple software for drawing coloured US states? Then again geography may not be the right foil; delegates or popular vote is more important than location. I didn't triple-check that the data is accurate. Sources:
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