"Red State, Blue State: Election
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Shows exactly what was built for 2008: an interactive homepage map with an Electoral College counter, a county-level bubble map that scales circles by margin, a voting shifts layer that flags counties moving more Republican or Democratic, and an Electoral Explorer to filter by demographics. Maps run from tab-delimited AP feeds published every two minutes, use an in-house Flash/vector pipeline and mapshaper simplification to stay small and fast, and power a homepage that handled millions of hits on election night.
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