This map looks similar to some other election maps out there, but it’s a little unusual. It tries to address something that I find frustrating about election maps: Very few of them do a good job of showing where voters are. (Brief thread, because I am enthusiastic about maps!)
People often focus on the idea that election maps over-emphasize sparse rural areas with few people, but a deeper problem is that the maps imply that “areas” have political leanings at all. Spots on the map belong to many overlapping areas won by different sides.
I’ve thought back to this chapter from What If a lot this year
Flipping through the other chapters, I’m sorry in advance for putting a specific year here
Now I’m trying to decide which page of my recent book How To (xkcd.com/how-to) I least want to unexpectedly come true five years from now. This part would be pretty bad.