{"id":564,"date":"2014-02-25T21:28:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T02:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/?p=564"},"modified":"2014-02-25T21:28:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T02:28:40","slug":"atlas-of-the-week-atlas-of-the-2008-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/2014\/02\/25\/atlas-of-the-week-atlas-of-the-2008-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlas of the Week: Atlas of the 2008 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Atlas of the 2008 Election,<\/em> edited by Stanley D. Brunn, Gerald R. Webster, Richard L. Morrill, Fred M. Shelly, Stephen J. Laven and J. Clark Archer, is a breakdown of the voting patterns of the 2008 Democratic and Republican Primaries, the general election, major state-wide ballot measures, other \u201cKey 2008 Elections,\u201d and major congressional votes of the 111\u00a0congress\u00b9. The most interesting feature of this atlas is its ability to breakdown one of the most momentous elections in a life-time into easy to understand and rather fascinating maps that most people would not otherwise think of. There are maps about travel schedules of the candidates in the week before the election, one of \u00a0the number of Google searches about each candidate, Twitter reports of wait time at the polls, newspaper endorsements, median center of each party, \u201cDonor sheds,\u201d and other important breakdowns of national statistics and the way certain groups voted\u00b2. \u00a0The use of this atlas allows the reader of it to gain a much better and more in-depth understanding of the 2008 election and American politics as a whole.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Brenden P. Carol<\/p>\n

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1<\/sup>Stanley D. Brunn, Gerald R. Webster, Richard L. Morrill, Fred M. Shelly, Stephen J. Laven, J. Clark Archer, Atlas of the 2008 Election<\/em>, (Lanham, Maryland: Rownman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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