On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Bryon Daly wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 22:16:18 -0600 (CST), Julia Thompson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Gautam Mukunda wrote: > > > > > http://www.kieranhealy.org/files/misc/purple_america_2004_small.gif > > > > I'd like to know what's up with the black counties, though. > > >From the orignal site: http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/election2004/ > "Counties shown in black represent either missing election data or a > mismatch between the US Census data and the USA Today data. For > example, the New England states' election return data is given for > each municipality and/or district rather than for each county. Hence, > it couldn't be easily matched with the county boundaries. " Hm. I thought that, frex, each town/city in NH was fully within one county, which would make it not that difficult to total it all up, if you had all the information as to which town was in which county. So maybe that's a case of missing data, the NH counties that are black? Julia _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
