Monday, November 16, 2020

What Happens When People Matter More Than Vacant Space: An Object Lesson In The Relationship Between Perspective And Meaning (A GIF)

 

We know those numbers are a lot, so we found this amazing visualization of the 2016 election:



Alan: With 97% of the presidential vote counted (and most outstanding ballots expected to be blue), Joe Biden has 7.7% more popular votes than Donald Trump.

N.B. My calculation is not the raw difference between Joe's percentage of the vote and Trump's percentage of the vote, but rather I have calculated how many more popular votes Joe got as a percentage of Trump's vote total.
 
Here are the raw data: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-elections/president-results?icid=election_nav

Here is a useful comparison:
In 2016, Hillary got 4.56% more popular votes than Trump did.



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  1. M.B. HardyNovember 16, 2020 at 9:28 PM

    The starting map looks like a map of COVID risk. If they just looked, red states might see God trying to tell them something.
    https://globalepidemics.org/key-metrics-for-covid-suppression/

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