The geography of U.S. presidential elections

Posted at 7:28 AM on October 20, 2008 by Bob Collins (5 Comments)
Filed under: Politics

There's blue American and there's red America (or a pro-America vs. anti-America if you're of that ilk) and you've probably noticed that there's a vast regional difference in the United States, and has been for a few decades. If you've got a couple of hours on your hands, here's a pretty interesting lecture on the geography of U.S. political elections. Even if you don't like maps, the instructor is pretty engaging.

(h/t: Open Culture)

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Comments (5)

fascinating, good find bob!

Posted by Greg Boone | October 20, 2008 8:46 AM

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What was it called? Who was the presenter? Youtube took it down.

Posted by Silas | October 20, 2008 1:48 PM

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It's still showing up for me. The presenter is Robert David Sullivan at Stanford.

Here's a direct link and as near as I can tell, it's still there.

If you have iTunes, you can also find it at ITunes University.

Posted by Bob Collins | October 20, 2008 2:13 PM

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Do you think this guy would do birthday parties?

Posted by boB Sinclair | October 21, 2008 2:40 PM

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Stanford's iTunesU seems to credit Martin Lewis for that presentation, not R.D. Sullivan.

Name: Basic Principles of Political Geography (October 15, 2008)
Artist: Martin Lewis
Album: Geography of US Elections
Genre: Stanford

http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.1725628871?i=2099200999

Wonderful presentation. Thanks for the pointer.

Posted by jml | October 21, 2008 10:51 PM

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