County-by-country results, courtesy of the Journal-Sentinel. Click over to their site for the interactive features and so forth. Basically, Obama had a very broad win here and looks likely to carry all of the state's congressional districts.
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Mapping Wisconsin
20 Feb 2008 09:58 am
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These monochrome maps are unhelpful; they don't show you the margin of victory, like the one this guy made.
Obama tended to fare better in southern Wisconsin. The other big win was in Eau Claire, where Clinton cancelled her campaign appearance (not due to weather; before that), but Obama kept his.
Didn't we learn from 2004 the importance of resizing the map based on population?
Yeah, but when you do that, the map just looks fugly. The 3-D maps where you show the vote totals with a bar in the third dimension are best, but they're still ugly. The best way to do it is in the commentary: "The big metro areas are here, here and here; the medium-sized towns are here", etc.
Obama's weakest margin in a medium sized town was Green Bay-Appleton-Oshkosh, where he still won by 10 or 15.
You can get interactive results for any state on the nytimes election section - it's all very well done:
http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/results/states/WI.html
Check out the "margin of victory" tab too.
Well, that's more impressive. I prefer the colors, because the bubbles don't tell the difference between "a medium sized town that was close" and "a rural area by a big margin". But of course my maps don't tell you the difference between "a rural area by a big margin" and "a big city by a big margin"— you just have to know where the cities are. Maybe I should put dots representing cities with more than 100,000 residents ...
Well, I can tell you from personal experience that it is very white and very conservative (although rational conservative, and not necessary Republican) up north. There aren't enough college professors up there to spin away _any_ margin of victory for Obama.
I will say that although Wisconsinites have traditionally claimed to despise and hate Illinoisians (and those from Chicago in particular) there probably was an element of regional pride in the vote. But not 20%.
Cranky
And now we will forget about Wisconsin for another four--no, probably eight years.
-A former Wisconsinite
I'm a little disappointed that Obama didn't carry that white bit in the middle. What's that, a big lake? I'm concerned about him not carrying the merpeople vote.
What happened in Wisconsin: Talking to a different kind of exit pollster after casting my vote in the Wisconsin primary. The young woman who interviewed me on a cold Wisconsin night was an Iraq War vet. She wasn't conducting a survey for the media but about the media.
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Heads in the Sand
What? Matthew is outsourcing Nicholas Beaudrot's job to the Journal-Sentinel?
And they didn't even do as good a map.
Posted by Al | February 20, 2008 10:17 AM