{"id":1789,"date":"2008-11-06T04:00:39","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2008-11-06T04:00:39","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T12:00:39","slug":"were-more-purple-than-we-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/06\/were-more-purple-than-we-think\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re more purple than we think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www-personal.umich.edu\/~mejn\/election\/2008\/\"><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-personal.umich.edu\/~mejn\/election\/2008\/countymapnonlinr384.png\"\/><\/center><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[This map uses] a color scale that ranges from red for 70% Republican or more, to blue for 70% Democrat or more. This is sort of practical, since there aren&#8217;t many counties outside that range anyway, but to some extent it also obscures the true balance of red and blue. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By: <a href=\"http:\/\/www-personal.umich.edu\/~mejn\/election\/2008\/\">Mark Newman<\/a><br \/>\nDepartment of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems<br \/>\nUniversity of Michigan<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethanzuckerman.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/06\/the-sort-the-election-the-hope\/\">Ethan Zuckerman<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[This map uses] a color scale that ranges from red for 70% Republican or more, to blue for 70% Democrat or more. This is sort of practical, since there aren&#8217;t many counties outside that range anyway, but to some extent it also obscures the true balance of red and blue. &#8221; By: Mark Newman Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems University of Michigan [via Ethan Zuckerman]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[121,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-maps","category-politics","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-sR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}