File talk:2004 US elections purple counties.png
Where are Hawaii and Alaska? --Fallout boy 08:42, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
Also, this map is wrong! Although I have not checked every single county, the county in which El Paso lays voted Democratic in 2004 (you can check me at http://uselectionatlas.org, or more directly at http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/img.php?year=2004&st=TX&type=map&off=0). This picture should either be altered, or removed entirely for its suspect accuracy. --Officer Klo, NJ
- Yes, i have seen the real picture before, and this is not it. It suspiciously seems to favour Red states, as in the real one i saw, only one state was red, and that was Utah (with the rest being purplish, and none being actually blue). It seems that is not based on states to begin with (here the one based on states http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/commentary/election2004/purpleUSAsm.jpg). Bush won by a roughly 2% margin, and that map right there makes it look like if he won by a 80%.
- There are certainly problems with this image. Republican control in particuarly rural areas mean that large tracts of land with relatively few inhabitants will appear red. The result of this is plain to see. While major cities and their surrounding suburbs will tend to appear blue, the rural counties lying further outside of the cities will tend to appear red. The image is decieving due to the fact that the population of one urban county might equal the population of ten rural counties, for example. To compensate for this, the University of Michigan has posted a cartogram comparing county by county election results with population(as calculated with the 2000 census). I believe this map to be less misleading and closer to the truth of the 2004 election. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/countycartlinearlarge.png
