2008 Washington State & Louisiana Democratic Primary/Caucus Results Maps

Nebraska reported their results by Congressional district, but without a map, Obama won Western Nebraska by only 53-47, while winning the rest of the state 70-30. Maine reported their results by town, of which there are more than five hundred (!!!), so you get no map there, either.

As others have pointed out, Louisiana exhibited extreme racial polarization; Obama earned over 85% of the African-American vote, but only 30% of the white vote. Only Tennessee, Alabama, and Oklahoma had more polarization. In Washington, Obama won big in every small, medium, or large city except for Pasco. Not counting his 1-0 delegate win in Garfield County, his biggest wins were in Seattle and its inner suburbs (72%), and the coastal areas of San Juan and Columbia counties.

Comments

[Erik]

Here is the Maine Map...
Keep up the good work Nick!!

[Whick]

Maybe it's just my eyes or my display, but the color range used in these maps tends toward two barely distinguishable tints of black at the two ends. This makes visual interpetation a lot harder than if the ends were purer, brighter shades of purple and green.

[Paul]

Maybe it's just my eyes or my display, but the color range used in these maps tends toward two barely distinguishable tints of black at the two ends. This makes visual interpetation a lot harder than if the ends were purer, brighter shades of purple and green.

You're not alone. I love these maps, but I find it really strange the way the colors are done. Obviously, tons of work has gone into them, but why make the colors impossible to figure out?

[Brian]

The sort of fattish, L-shaped blob at the bottom of Puget Sound is Vashon and Maury Island, which is part of King county and should be colored black. Puget Sound south of Tacoma is missing and thus Kitsap and Pierce counties are kind of merged into one.

None of this really changes the end result, but it makes the map look very strange to anyone who is familiar with the area.

[riffle]

I think the WA map will need to be revised:

"It turns out Barack Obama did win every county in Washington state's Democratic caucuses on Saturday.

The state Democratic Party had initially reported that Hillary Rodham Clinton won just a single county, Douglas County, in Eastern Washington by a 53-32 count of delegates.

But now party leaders say someone misreported the results. The correct tally in Douglas County, according to state party Executive Director Jaxon Ravens, is 65 delegates for Obama and 37 for Clinton, completing the Obama's sweep of all 39 Washington counties."

From the Seattle Times.

[Mrmmm]

>>>The sort of fattish, L-shaped blob at the bottom of Puget Sound is Vashon and Maury Island, which is part of King county and should be colored black. Puget Sound south of Tacoma is missing and thus Kitsap and Pierce counties are kind of merged into one.

I noticed the map was kind of weird too. All of the islands of Island County seem to be rendered as a large reverse-L blob. (Upside-down mega-Orcas?) Again, not inaccurate, since Island is big Obama country, but strange. One doesn't expect geographically inaccurate maps in 2008.