{"id":228,"date":"2008-11-07T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/11\/07\/what-the-election-map-really-looks-like\/"},"modified":"2008-11-07T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T14:24:00","slug":"what-the-election-map-really-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/11\/07\/what-the-election-map-really-looks-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What the election map REALLY looks like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/statepopredblue512-733346.png\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer;width: 320px;height: 228px\" src=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/statepopredblue512-733342.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Even after Barack Obama&#8217;s landslide win on Tuesday, America&#8217;s electoral map looks pretty red.  Vast oceans of conservatism sprawl through the South and Midwest.<\/p>\n<p>But one cartographer at the University of Michigan has tweaked that image, to better reflect the election&#8217;s outcome based not on square miles (there&#8217;s a lot of empty terrain out in conservative country) but on population.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, Obama won the vast majority of states with big populations &#8212; and lost in many states with small, rural populations. <\/p>\n<p>See the full array of maps &#8212; including a fascinating tapestry that shifts from red through purple to blue <a href=\"http:\/\/www-personal.umich.edu\/%7Emejn\/election\/2008\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even after Barack Obama&#8217;s landslide win on Tuesday, America&#8217;s electoral map looks pretty red. Vast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}