Gregory Rosenthal has this great post, complete with maps, over at his blog which illustrates the geography of third party support as a whole. There are also maps for the Constitution Party, Libertarian Party, and Green Party. Mr. Rosenthal attempts to analyze the maps and predict which areas will deliver the strongest returns for each party. The entire post is well worth reading for third party aficionados.
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I wish this analysis included Ralph Nader, because a lot of potential Green’s voted for Nader. My grandma is one of them. He should have been included in this study.
In addition, I am very curious to see how all three parties do in 2012 in comparison to 2008. I hope there is someone out there who can do similar graphs for older elections so we can see how each party has done in comparison to each other, etc.
Barr was the only non-D/Roid choice in most of the states he did best in, Indiana, Georgia, North Carolina and Texas. Utah was the only state he did relatively well in that had other non-D/Roid presidential candidates on the ballot,and was also Baldwin’s best state.
Of the states McKinney did best in, Maine, Louisiana and DC all were states Barr was not on the ballot in, so she did not do best of the three in any state where Barr was a choice. Of the states Baldwin did best of the three in, West Virginia and Connecticut were also states where Barr was not on the ballot.
Baldwin wasn’t on in Indiana, i’m almost entirely positive of that.
I’m reading it and it said that Barr did well in Indiana because he was the only third party choice in that state, and the very next candidate, Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party, the author states that he did well in Indiana too. Hmmmm.
I’ve asked on a couple of different threads. Hopefully someone will clue us in.
I would love to also–but no, I havent got a clue.
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Trent or anyone, know of a good program for generating such maps?
This was indeed an interesting post. It made some points that I’d like to share later, as well as a few errors (for example, he says Ron Paul was a write-in in Montana – he was actually listed on the ballot), and some things I would like to elaborate on.
I’d also like to produce updated ballot access maps for the various candidates.
Indiana and Bob Barr in 2008. Why did he do so well?
Indiana LP is one of the most organized affiliates in the country with local operations set up in many counties. Fundamental blocking and tackling, with local and state operations working together. Critical to success of an organization. They have been building their organization for years.
Im a big fan of maps–so I’m insanely excited about this post.