By: The Male Cheerleader Gerrymandering has been part of our government for a long time now, and with the Supreme Court hearing a challenge to the voting rights act, it may get a whole lot worse. Click past the break to learn more.
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By: The Male Cheerleader Donating money towards a political campaign became one of the biggest issues in this years political race. A team from Northeastern University's Lazer Lab wanted to help you visualize it geographically. Hit the read more link, so see the visualization in its disgusting glory.
By: The Male Cheerleader From NPR's It's All Politics Blog By: The Male Cheerleader From TPM
http://core.talkingpointsmemo.com/election/scoreboard From CNN http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/ecalculator#?battleground_ From Huffington Post http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2012/romney-vs-obama-electoral-map From New York Times http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/electoral-map From PBS http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2012/map/calc.html#states=lrGSpRqGBlvGnqBlKp From BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19794259 The predictions vary, but in a couple short days, the madness will all be over. Enjoy the maps. By: The Male Cheerleader Did you know the 2012 presidential election is the first one since 1988 that neither candidate mentioned "climate change" in a debate. Tonight airs the an episode of Frontline by PBS called "Climate of Doubt", so if you are looking for looking to get your fix of science and well...views from the other side...watch it live or online.
Check your local listings and please post in the comments what you thought! [via PBS] By: The Male Cheerleader Yarbographers love cartograms so we are starting a weekly posting of a cartogram just to show our love to these fun visualizations. Above you see a cartogram from the 2008 presidential election, and the counties are weighted by population. Not much more needs to be said, just stare at it and think.
[via Open Left] By: The Male Cheerleader Say what you want about politics but we have a problem in this country and it is spending money that we don't have. One of the biggest sources of this is our military, and thanks to wikipedia you can see the amount we spend compared to the rest of the world. Head past the break to see another way to visualize it.
By: The Male Cheerleader The suburbs are possibly the last political frontier that haven't been conquered by any political party. Joel Kotkin argues how the suburbs are the deciding factor in this years election. Read past the break to learn more for a little political yarbography.
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