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this site

http://www.style.org/mappingvotes/

Election result maps often do a very bad job of representing actual vote outcomes because they use a georgphic scale to represent something that isn't truly determined by geography. Think how Greenland seems as large as Africa on many maps, compared to how much power Greenland would have politically. attempts to do a better job of explaining the CA Gov. election outcome visually.

posted at 11:48 am
on Nov. 22, 2003

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