Submitted by notspoon t3_z87m5s in dataisbeautiful
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Fuck_Lasagna t1_iya8u6l wrote
What happened on Hawaii? Was it very Democratic to begin with?
kgunnar t1_iya957d wrote
Yes it’s one of the highest. It would help if it had the actual %.
authorPGAusten t1_iya95t9 wrote
Yes Hawaii is one of the most democratic states. The biggest shifts right were all in liberal states with the exception of Florida.
21Racr t1_iya9wxp wrote
I hate these types of pseudo-map visualizations because they distort geography horrifically. I mean, Minnesota, the northernmost contiguous state, is now south of several states? That’s just one problem.
Either use a map, or don’t. This is terrible data visualization.
DuckDuckGoose42 t1_iyad67e wrote
How about a legend that explains what you legend means?
4% vote shift of Electoral College Votes is significant.
There is no such this as 'popular vote' for US President, that is a media made up item.
notspoon OP t1_iyaeede wrote
Popular vote for each state! Should have specified my bad D-:
Schnackenpfeffer t1_iyaf685 wrote
2016 was a particularly strong year for third partes. What would the comparison be like for 2012?
JPAnalyst t1_iyag747 wrote
>There is no such this as 'popular vote' for US President, that is a media made up item.
There is absolutely a popular vote that exists and is a real thing. Just because it’s not the thing that matters most like electoral college doesn’t mean it’s “made up”.
Points decide winners and loser of football games, but yards are still a thing we count and analyze.
ngfsmg t1_iyajr31 wrote
Two things: Hawaii voted highly democrat for Obama (he was born there) in 2008 and that effect has been fading, and Republicans in general improved in areas with a lot of non-white voters (Hawaii is the state with the least white people)
ngfsmg t1_iyajvzq wrote
This seems to be relative to the two big parties votes only, ignoring third parties
Schnackenpfeffer t1_iyakxat wrote
Sometimes third parties get more votes from one party than from another
DodgerWalker t1_iyalh4u wrote
I wrote a Python script where you can type in any two election years and it will give a map of the relative change in partisanship from the first year you put in to the second year. Note, however, that it is a relative change so e.g. Clinton and Biden both won Nevada by 2.8 points, but Clinton won the popular vote by 2.1, while Biden won it by 4.5, so Nevada moved 0 points in raw margin, but this shows up as -2.4 since that was the change relative to the national margins.
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1MyV4K0m0dHywjSbz17qOE38ju8qauTH6?usp=sharing
Tiny_Fly_7397 t1_iyam68c wrote
Yeah I’d be happy never seeing this type of visualization again.
rodeler t1_iyamkuv wrote
NY's result does not surprise me. Even though it voted overwhelmingly for Biden, I can tell you anecdotally that I saw way more Trump banners, stickers, lawn signs, etc., than I did for Biden. This might be due to the palpable fear that was in the air of the possibility that Trump supporters would somehow retaliate against Biden supporters, however real or imagined it might have been.
FlowerExcellent6551 t1_iyastfv wrote
Its a bit shocking how many trump, let’s go branden and #fjb banners are out in the rural areas of upstate NY. I even saw a #fjb store the other day. The idiot cult is strong.
PBFT t1_iyb1ri2 wrote
It’s likely many people don’t feel the need to vote, so the results get skewed. Hawaii is perhaps the most blue-leaning state and Democrats I believe hold a supermajority at the state level.
Rdan5112 t1_iyb2yz3 wrote
Looking at elections like this is messed up. Californias population is 65x as large as Wyoming. In some ways, it make as much sense to give Fresno its own box.
phromadistance t1_iyb5a8n wrote
It took me an embarrassingly long time to find Connecticut
HPmoni t1_iyb7fiv wrote
A lot of minorities and rich white liberals. So...yes.
ImminentZero t1_iybb184 wrote
If love to see this visualization done by county and by voting district
Papancasudani t1_iybe2zb wrote
Loos like NJ got moved from the east coast to the Great Lakes region.
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LiterallyMatt t1_iybhhgs wrote
Yeah very unfortunate that people think some areas should count more than other areas. I just think each citizen should count the same.
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LiterallyMatt t1_iybhz0c wrote
Which three cities? Adding NYC, LA, and Chicago gets you to 15.6 million or 4.65% of the US population.
kaizerdouken t1_iybie2h wrote
Mass media biased propaganda and several unfounded investigations worked their magic to kick Republicans out. 🫡
mjkjg2 t1_iybj4yf wrote
okay but why should my vote in California be worth 1/68th of my cousin’s vote in Wyoming
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mjkjg2 t1_iybjqgz wrote
okay but how is minority tyranny any better than majority tyranny
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Coachbelcher t1_iybkc6l wrote
The subtle bias of having the Republican shift be negative.
bushman622 t1_iybkeve wrote
WI placement is killing me
PrimeNumbersby2 t1_iybl9jp wrote
It's a shame all the Governors of all states have to be voted in by a urban popular vote and not by a representative county vote so that all counties could have a voice. Also a shame that there's not another part of government that is powerful and gives a voice to all states, no matter how small.
Knardle t1_iybo9iv wrote
Which three cities? Why do you people use this line so much?
notspoon OP t1_iybodp8 wrote
It’s just the way the calculations and group by statements worked out, man. I don’t know what to tell you. In order to get the color scale to work properly someone had to be negative and someone had to be positive.
Blame the Phoenicians, or the Greeks, or the developers of R, for putting D over R in the alphabet.
Negative number shouldn’t imply negative connotations either. -1 isn’t evil! It’s just a number. 🤷♂️
notspoon OP t1_iybor4s wrote
🤷♂️ I don’t know what to say to this. Next time I make a cartogram heatmap I’ll take the extra 30 seconds photoshop erase the negative sign. Promise.
Someone had to be negative for the color scale function, and D comes before R in the alphabet.
BenniTheJetRodriguez t1_iybu7mk wrote
Why is Wisconsin in Canada?
Droidatopia t1_iyby6ls wrote
As much as I abhor the constant whining about the electoral college, the popular vote still carries meaning.
A president who barely edges to an EC victory, but has a huge margin in the popular vote can lay claim to a bigger mandate than a president who wins a decisive EC victory, but only squeaks by with a slight popular vote win. And of course either of those scenarios are preferable to being president without winning the popular vote.
Perception matters in presidential politics.
The thing that annoys me about the popular vote whining is that people get confused and think that if a candidate won the popular vote, than that person would have been president if we used a popular vote system to elect presidents. That is absolutely an annoying fairy tale pushed by the media.
thewhizzle t1_iyc287p wrote
The more likely reason is that trump has cultivated a cult of personality whereas Biden hasn't. There's a reason why Jan 6 rioters were unironically waving both Trump and American flags while trying to overturn a legitimate election
gylphin t1_iyc4q5b wrote
Where are you getting your data from?
NYS 2016 Hillary: 4.5 million (59.38%) Trump: 2.8 million (36.75%)
NYS 2020 Biden: 5.2 million +0.7 mil (60.87% +1.49%) Trump: 3.2 million +0.4 mil (37.74% +0.99%)
Overall a blue shift in NYS. Did you add working family party votes to the total (and I think biden also got other 3rd party lines in NY that year) or just raw dem votes? NYS has fusion voting so raw dem votes are not the total votes received - candidates run on and receive votes from multiple lines. *edited to make formatting look a little better
gylphin t1_iyc50cm wrote
It's a 4% increase in gop votes and a like 0.75% increase in dem votes - bc of weaker 3rd party candidates. Hawaii only sees like 500k voters a cycle so small changes can make a big difference. Biden gained 100k votes (266k->366k) in the state while trump gained about about 68k (128k->196k)- but due to the breakdown and fewer 3rd parties that translates to the above changes.
Fuck_Lasagna t1_iyc7b5h wrote
I see, thanks!
himmmmmmmmmmmmmm t1_iychmx0 wrote
The idiots like to advertise their idiocy
benthib t1_iycnzjx wrote
All you had to do is get ride of the - symbol on the bottom, like a child could have done in Windows Paint.
MrMitchWeaver t1_iycr40q wrote
When you say "Republicans vs Democrats" in that order it suggests that Republicans are on the numerator or at the top of the color scale. However, the top is blue and there is no legend.
So is blue Democrat or republican?
Also is it a difference in percentage points or a percent increase?
Twheezy01 t1_iycrjoy wrote
NY and Florida's congressional districts were gerrymandered in favor of Republicans. If it wasn't for that, it would have been a complete ass whooping
Drbubbles47 t1_iydeoj4 wrote
Wisconsin knows what it did.
TheSugarBowl105 t1_iydxv19 wrote
It’s called a political earthquake. Basically when the country isn’t doing great, people switch over the next petty in hope they’ll fix everything.
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Suitable-Airport-644 t1_iyeicqv wrote
Yeah that's just the few conservative dipshits in those places getting energized by orange Hitler.
notspoon OP t1_iya6kr3 wrote
Source Made in R using Statebins and ggplot2!