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Title: OMG! They Just Finished Counting Trump’s Votes, I Can’t Believe What I’m Seeing
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Freedom Daily
URL Source: http://freedomdaily.com/omg-just-fi ... -votes-cant-believe-im-seeing/
Published: Nov 17, 2016
Author: Natt
Post Date: 2016-11-17 03:27:45 by Gatlin
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Views: 4942
Comments: 13
Last week’s election marked but the second time our electoral college system screwed over Hillary Clinton. Not only did she win the popular vote on Tuesday but get decimated in the electoral college – when she ran in the Democrat Primary in 2008 she got more votes than Barack Obama but got fewer delegates. Click here to read the remainder of this article. 
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#1. To: Gatlin (#0)
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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2016/ Maps of the 2016 US presidential election results [excerpt] Election results by county We can go further. We can do the same thing also with the county-level election results and the images are even more striking. Here is a map of US counties, again colored red and blue to indicate Republican and Democratic majorities respectively: Now the effects we saw at the state level are even more pronounced: the red areas appear overwhelmingly in the majority, despite the closeness of the vote. Again, we can make a more helpful representation by using a cartogram. Here is what the cartogram looks like for the county-level election returns: However, this map is still somewhat misleading because we have colored every county either red or blue, as if every voter voted the same way. This is of course not realistic: all counties contain both Republican and Democratic supporters and in using just the two colors on our map we lose any information about the balance between them. There is no way to tell whether a particular county went strongly for one candidate or the other or whether it was relatively evenly split. One way to reveal more nuance in the vote is to use not just two colors, red and blue, but to use red, blue, and shades of purple in between to indicate percentages of votes. Here is what the normal map looks like if you do this: [...] © 2016 M. E. J. Newman The views expressed are personal and are not necessarily shared by the University of Michigan. Mark Newman, Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan
#12. To: nolu chan (#8)
Amazing!!!
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Go to hell. You're out to sabotage this site and are doing a good job at it.
#8. To: rlk, Gatlin (#1)
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Updated: November 10, 2016
Replies to Comment # 8. Now the effects we saw at the state level are even more pronounced: the red areas appear overwhelmingly in the majority, despite the closeness of the vote.
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