2020 Election Map Shades Of Purple

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2020 election map shades of purple. Which change from a red blue paradigm to one of shades of purple. Since the 2000 united states presidential election red states and blue states have referred to summary of results of the 2008 2012 2016 and 2020 presidential elections by state carried by the these purple maps are useful for showing the highly mixed nature of voting but are extremely difficult to interpret in detail. No state is strictly red or blue they are all shades of purple.

But the purple hues are nonsense. Click states on this interactive map to create your own 2020 election forecast. While a map with counties coloured both pink or blue can clearly show which candidate gained every county it would not inform the complete story.

Four maps that show how america voted in the 2020 election with results by county number of voters mitchell thorson janie haseman and carlie procell usa today. People see maps of any type and particularly election maps as the result the outcome but there are so many different types of maps available that can portray results in shades of the truth. Use the buttons below the map to share your forecast.

November 11 2020 november 11. Create a specific match up by clicking the party and or names near the electoral vote counter. This map works because collectively the dots coalesce into a meaningful picture of where there was uniform support.

Ohio is another state normally considered purple in presidential elections that tells a different story with its state government as well. Intense blue indicates votes for hillary clinton and intense red indicates votes for donald trump. We created the purple map because pure red and pure blue counties didn t show us the vote margins.

Electoral maps not only illustrate polarization they can exacerbate it. It will take 270 electoral votes to win the 2020 presidential election. We end up looking for the quality of red ness or blue ness.