We used data from , , and to determine how this model would have changed presidential elections from 2000 to 2016. Simply click the graphic to be taken to the relevant Wikipedia article. All states except Nebraska and Maine use a allocation of electors. This did not last for long however, as the Republicans lost control of both chambers of Congress in the. In 38 states, the voters are required by law to vote for the candidate who won the popular voter in their state, although all electors usually cast a ballot for the popular vote winner.
Thus this map shows at a glance both which states went to which candidate and which candidate won more votes — something that you cannot tell easily from the normal election-night red and blue map. Red Over Blue: The 2004 Elections and American Politics 2005 , narrative history. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. A slight variation on the same idea is to use a nonlinear color scale like this: These maps use a color scale that ranges from red for 70% Republican or more, to blue for 70% Democrat or more. The machine can be audited for irregularities and voting totals stored on multiple backup devices can be compared, but vote counts will not change.
So, instead, here is a map from the International Dark Sky Association. Danforth Quayle Republican 39,104,550 37. The Maine and Nebraska model allows for electoral vote splits impossible in other states outside of. Archived from on October 29, 2004. Date Host City Moderators Participants Viewship Millions P1 Thursday, September 30, 2004 62. This recount was completed December 28, 2004, although on January 24, 2007, a jury convicted two Ohio elections officials of selecting precincts to recount where they already knew the hand total would match the machine total, thereby avoiding having to perform a full recount. Kucinich did not leave the race officially until July.
Bush's absolute victory margin approximately 3 million votes was the smallest of any sitting president since in. Again, however, a cartogram gives a more accurate picture. Archived from the original on November 2, 2004. Sixteen states and the District of Columbia did not change their votes in the model. We can do the same thing also with the county-level election results and the images are even more striking.
This phrase had previously been used by Bush in the summer of 2003, warning insurgents that the United States would not be intimidated to leave Iraq until after the country had been stabilized. By comparison, only a quarter lived in such counties in 1976. Although in percentage terms it was the closest popular margin ever for a victorious sitting president, Bush received 2. Bush was accused of in the. In Iowa, Minnesota, and Oregon, Bush won more congressional districts than Gore but Gore won the statewide vote. Click anywhere on the map for a larger version. Archived from on August 25, 2012.
Trump wins 292 electoral votes and Clinton receives 246 electoral votes using the Maine and Nebraska system. However, Bush's high approval ratings did not last. It went for Ronald Reagan and George H. Just eight months into his presidency, the of September 11, 2001, suddenly transformed Bush into a wartime president. I'm still working on a larger version. In the afternoon Ohio's Secretary of State, , announced that it was statistically impossible for the Democrats to make up enough valid votes in the provisional ballots to win.
Height is voter density voters per square mile so that volume represents total number of voters. Heading into the primaries, Kerry's campaign was largely seen as being in trouble, particularly after he fired campaign manager. However the has full regulatory authority over federal testing and certification processes, as well as an influential advisory role in certain voting industry matters. Not realizing that the law required the phrasing, some people viewing the ads reportedly questioned why Dean might say such a thing—such questions were easier to ask because of the maverick nature of Dean's campaign in general. The following is list of the states considered swing states in the 2004 election by most news organizations and which candidate they eventually went for. The 21st-Century Voter: Who Votes, How They Vote, and Why They Vote 2 vol.
A few years ago I collaborated briefly with David Dobkin and Stephen North on algorithms for producing cartograms. As a result, several states had a different number of electors in the in 2004 than in 2000, since the number of electors allotted to each state is equal to the sum of the number of and from that state. Archived from on December 27, 2007. The candidate receiving a majority of the votes in the electoral college wins the election. The morning after the election, the major candidates were neck and neck. Bush had preliminary leads of less than 5% of the vote in only four states, but if Iowa, and New Mexico had all eventually gone to Kerry, a win for Bush in Ohio would have created a 269—269 tie in the Electoral College.