{"id":3060,"date":"2022-04-05T16:36:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T21:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/?p=3060"},"modified":"2022-04-27T14:55:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T19:55:39","slug":"atlas-of-the-week-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/2022\/04\/05\/atlas-of-the-week-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlas of the Week: Election 2020 Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-05-at-5.33.34-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3061\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/files\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-05-at-5.33.34-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"718\" \/><\/a><b>Figure 1: 2020 Election Results By County <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bump, \u201cLet\u2019s Get Ahead of It: A Map of the Early 2020 Results by Population, Not Acreage\u201d)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This atlas is a map that shows the 2020 election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. I chose this for two reasons: (1) <em>It utilizes the special benefits of a classic map visualization while trying to convey a greater statistical representation of the election results. By doing so, it effectively communicates the rhetorical weight of cartography on the election without distorting the representation of the populous vote.<\/em> (2) <em>This map is directly correlated to my blog post by showing an alternative solution to some of the issues brought up in my analysis, in which there is a lesser emphasis placed on acreage portrayal.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>References<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bump, Philip. \u201cLet\u2019s Get Ahead of It: A Map of the Early 2020 Results by Population, Not Acreage.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Washington Post<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, n.d. https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2020\/11\/05\/lets-get-ahead-it-map-early-2020-results-by-population-not-acreage\/.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figure 1: 2020 Election Results By County (Bump, \u201cLet\u2019s Get Ahead of It: A Map of the Early 2020 Results by Population, Not Acreage\u201d) This atlas is a map that shows the 2020 election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/2022\/04\/05\/atlas-of-the-week-23\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4776,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3140,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions\/3140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}