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re: LOL snopes LOL 2016 election map by county OH BOY WE LOVE FACT CHECKERS
Posted on 1/23/17 at 2:37 pm to CAD703X
Posted on 1/23/17 at 2:37 pm to CAD703X
WaPo had a big article on this back in November and were running cartograms.
This is an old one:
More telling is the 3-D ones used by this guy showing margin of victory...from 2000.
![](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/how-election-maps-lie/img/vanderbei-examples-600.jpg?c=685)
This is an old one:
![](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/how-election-maps-lie/img/1883-county-map.jpg)
More telling is the 3-D ones used by this guy showing margin of victory...from 2000.
![](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/how-election-maps-lie/img/vanderbei-examples-600.jpg?c=685)
Posted on 1/23/17 at 2:42 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
All these graphs show exactly why you have to have an electoral college when you are a republic of republic's. Otherwise politicians could simply ignore huge swaths of the country instead of having to build broad coalition's of regional support
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