US political map by party and population?

November 5, 2008 12:49 PM

Where is that particular political map of America that shows a county by county breakdown of party and population via 3D extrusion?

I recall seeing, from either the 2004 or 2006 US elections, a neat political map. It was 3D, with the shape of America on a horizontal plane and broken down by county. Each county was colored red or blue, based on who won it.

The best part was that each county was extruded vertically, based on the size of the population. This allowed you see see the population breakdown of Democrat vs Republican voting.

Anyone got a link to this map? It's probably from 2004 or 2006, but I'll take one from 2008 too if it exists.

I've been to politicalmaps.org, but they don't have what I'm looking for, not even the population cartogram.

posted by Brandon Blatcher to law & government (6 comments total)

Here is something like that for 2008.
posted by exogenous at 1:17 PM on November 5, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

Yes, that's the type of map I'm looking for, but the height of each county should represent its percentage of the US population, not the vote margin.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 1:24 PM on November 5, 2008

Like these from 2004 (or this one in just red/blue)
posted by milkrate at 1:31 PM on November 5, 2008

Yeah, that's them, thanks!
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 2:51 PM on November 5, 2008

Say, are there such maps for Canada, France or Australia?
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 12:31 PM on November 6, 2008

Washington Post put one out for 2008 in just red/blue.
posted by milkrate at 12:58 PM on November 7, 2008