{"id":108,"date":"2008-11-05T15:35:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T20:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elegans.uky.edu\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2008-11-05T15:35:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T20:35:08","slug":"notes-from-the-2008-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the 2008 election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The national popular vote shifted +8% for the Democratic candidate compared to 2004 but some counties voted more Republican.  I think we are seeing the most racist regions of the country, running in a belt across the Southern and Appalachian states.  This map likely minimizes the extent of the belt, as in southern state counties with large black populations there was a high black turnout and Obama got a higher percent of the black vote.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elegans.uky.edu\/blog\/pics\/2008_more_repub.png\" alt=\"counties more Republican in 2008\" \/><br \/>\n(image from http:\/\/nytimes.com\/)<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the coin is Indiana which swung +21% in Obama&#8217;s favor&#8211;the biggest surprise of the election this year.  It looks like Indiana is finally giving up its claim to be the northern-most Southern state and is rejoining the Midwest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national popular vote shifted +8% for the Democratic candidate compared to 2004 but some counties voted more Republican. I think we are seeing the most racist regions of the country, running in a belt across the Southern and Appalachian states. This map likely minimizes the extent of the belt, as in southern state counties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}