{"id":2373,"date":"2016-10-12T22:54:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T22:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/12\/theres-more-than-one-way-to-map-an-election\/"},"modified":"2016-10-12T22:54:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T22:54:18","slug":"theres-more-than-one-way-to-map-an-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/12\/theres-more-than-one-way-to-map-an-election\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s More Than One Way to Map an Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2016\/10\/united-states-election-map-history\/'>There\u2019s More Than One Way to Map an Election<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>&ldquo;Electoral maps have been around since the 1800s. Maybe it\u2019s time to try something new. &rdquo; &ndash; My Comments : It&rsquo;s about that time again.  Geographically correct &ldquo;Red and Blue&rdquo; electoral maps generally fail to visually convey the vitally important fact that regions with higher population density wield more electoral votes.  This notion isn&rsquo;t revelatory by any means, but it would be nice to hear it addressed by pundits more often.  Unfortunately, as the article points out, the standard paradigm isn&rsquo;t likely to change any time soon.  <\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ll refrain from any pithy, cynical statements on the lamentable state of American geographic knowledge that prevents a more accurate model from being embraced.  Oops, too late. :-p<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s More Than One Way to Map an Election &ldquo;Electoral maps have been around since the 1800s. Maybe it\u2019s time to try something new. &rdquo; &ndash; My Comments : It&rsquo;s about that time again. Geographically correct &ldquo;Red and Blue&rdquo; electoral maps generally fail to visually convey the vitally important fact that regions with higher population &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/12\/theres-more-than-one-way-to-map-an-election\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;There\u2019s More Than One Way to Map an Election&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fbshare","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}