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Anecdotal fun, but one might want to know why all 50 states aren’t represented before considering it meaningful.

I saw this yesterday and was wondering how long it would take before showing up on SVN …. It’d be great if this visualizer were to end up somewhere with an API attached a la google charts.

@Brian – I would suspect, but I didn’t check, that this only shows primary states. Caucuses don’t lend themselves to exit polling due to the different way they’re conducted.

It doesn’t show which candidate won what state for All Voters. I can’t remember who won which state.

very interesting visualization, thanks for the link. this makes it look like a race/generation tug-of-war.

Here’s a link to the graphic embedded in an html page. It’s a little easier view. Graphin on nytimes.com

I saw it, and initially really liked it but then became disappointed. It seems to invite me to filter with the variables on offer. So, I wanted to click on, say, “Females” but then ALSO on “White”, “45-59”, ”$30K-$50K” and “College Grad.” It’s entirely possible this can be done, and I’m just not seenig how to actually do it.

If you have all the factors and the numbers plugged in, why not allow filtering the figures (by clicking multiple variables) to give a real snapshot? I guess it’s probably because the data’s not available for the different permutations. But I really wanted to see just beyond “Blacks” voted this way, or “Women” voted that. It would give better context to the news headlines.

Awesome visualization! NYTimes has been doing some really good visualizations off late. And fortunately for them, this (and blogging, free access, etc.) may be the reason they survive despite the demise of all the other newspapers.

I only wish they would remove their annoying compulsory login. It serves no purpose anyway.

I used to work at Statistics New Zealand as a web person. This is how stats should be. Interactive == fun.

My problem with this is the states are equally sized, despite massively unequal populations. If Wyoming is one block big, California should be the equivalent of 76 blocks to demonstrate any level of visible accuracy. One state = one block is completely useless.