Vote swings in rich and poor counties
November 9th, 2008, by Andrew
Obama gained in almost all the middle-income and rich counties but not so uniformly in poorer counties:
Breaking this up by region:
See here for further discussion and more graphs.
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Add your own1. Steve Roth | November 9th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Andrew:
I know that I am still waiting with bated breath–as are, I’m sure, all your other devoted readers–to find out the key fact:
What happened with rich voters in poor states? How did they swing this year compared to the country as a whole, and to the other three rich/poor segments?
It was possible to deduce some from the country graphs, but…
2. Did Race Win the Election&hellip | January 7th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
[...] can also slice up the vote swing geographically, by counties in different regions of the country, and you find that Obama did close to uniformly better than Kerry nearly everwhere, except for [...]
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