ARCH470fa08 Course Log

I felt that my graphic was lacking some information. I took this opportunity to include a cloth that represents where Obama spent more time campaigning. This adds a little more clarity as to why in some places McCain was not ranked high in the polls. Again the numbers are a little exaggerated. II did this because the actual numbers were too close to see any distinction in the graphic. Red represents McCain and Blue Represents Obama.

Does it help?

exercise 06 By ADeVittorio ⋅ November 4, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I based my analysis on all the Toss Up states and McCain’s campaign specifically. I chose to quantify the time McCain spent in each one of the States and compare it to whether it helped him win votes or hurt him. The days spent campaigning in each state is displayed as a transparent sphere. The actual votes are represented are a solid mass. the solid mass was sized using the transparent sphere’s size as a starting point. The size of the “actual votes” sphere was based on the the difference of the votes between McCain and Obama. The difference between the states were by a maximum percentage of 5 points. Then I sized that difference using the percentage out of a factor of 5. I had to exaggerate the number in order to be able to see it in the graphic. The results show that spending more time in some states benefited McCain and in others didn’t help. In states like Florida and Ohio, McCain spent a lot of days campaigning but no good came from doing so.