I wanted to mention this because while my analysis will be on the context and mapping of the 2020 election, after digging around I found that the 2016 election map and 2020 election map are nearly identical from a visual standpoint. Due to this issue, the visualizations of the map as a whole are affected by the omitted counties and states. Through the pandemic, some states didn’t report votes in ways that linked the votes to specific precincts in the state because of the widespread mail-in balloting, so the New York Times – which is the source that created the map – felt that country-specific data from those states could not reliably be mapped. There are some states that have been omitted from the county breakdown on the 2020 election map due to the ways the states reported votes. Not only that, but I believe this map and my greater analysis complement the blog thread as American political maps offer additional avenues of analysis on the rhetorical weight of their standing. I chose this map to be my “map of the week” because I think political maps are great examples of the rhetoric behind cartography. The map details data from “2,523 of 3,143 counties in 47 states, representing 89% of all votes cast” ( Park et al., “An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2020 Election”). The map I chose for my blog is a map of the 2020 election results (FIGURE 1). The background I provide on this topic is worded as such to allow for a deeper conveyance of my argument related to my map of the week and around the rhetoric of cartography. To preface this blog post, I would like to note that I do not mean what I say to be taken as a political message. FIGURE 1: 2020 Presidential Election ( Park et al., “An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2020 Election”)įIGURE 2: 2016 Presidential Election ( Bloch et al., “An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Presidential Election”)
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