FiveThirtyEight – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 13:14:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg FiveThirtyEight – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Mapping Clinton and Trump’s Upside Potential (Whatever That Means) https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/10/mapping-clinton-and-trumps-upside-potential-whatever-that-means/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:07:57 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=3150 More]]> 538-upside

Earlier this month FiveThirtyEight built a county-by-county model showing where both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s “upside potential” — by which they meant where they would each benefit from the shifts in the electoral landscape. Compared to 2012, Clinton is underperforming with non-college-educated whites and Trump is underperforming with Asians, African-Americans, Latinos and college educated whites.

To get a handle on how these shifts could affect the electoral landscape, we modeled how many of Romney’s votes came from college-educated whites and minorities and how many of Obama’s votes came from non-college-educated whites in each state, county and congressional district. The difference between these two vote totals, shown in the map above, can tell us where Clinton and Trump have the most potential to build on 2012.

The authors went on to game out what that might look like in terms of the electoral vote if one in five voters in those shifting groups switched allegiances.

]]>
3150
Trump, Clinton and the Gender Gap https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/10/trump-clinton-and-the-gender-gap/ Wed, 12 Oct 2016 17:22:48 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=3042 More]]> A pronounced gender split is emerging in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Based on national polls in October, Nate Silver writes, “on average, Clinton leads Trump by 15 percentage points among women while trailing him by 5 points among men. How would that look on the electoral map?” Silver does a quick-and-dirty estimation by adding or subtracting 10 points to/from the FiveThirtyEight forecast. Moving 10 points to Clinton’s column approximates what the electoral map would look like if only women voted:

538-womenvoted

Moving those 10 points to Trump’s column approximates the results if only men voted:

538-menvoted

You’ve almost certainly seen these maps make the rounds of social media. This is where they came from and how they were made.

]]>
3042