good work

doing precinct counts by hand is not fun at all.

I like the map!

18, Dem, PA-7

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by: Warning_Crazy @ Tue Mar 08, 2011 at 06:14:49 AM UTC

Good map. Kind of makes me wonder if it's possible to draw

2 Obama districts. Another question- Are the precincts roughly aligned with the Census tracts in Nebraska? If so, we could get onto making data available for the App.

18- Hamburg, Germany (non-US-citizen)

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by: Twohundertseventy @ Tue Mar 08, 2011 at 06:29:48 AM UTC

Completely off topic, but

What do you the of the SPD mopping up your election in Hamburg?  Solely local issues or a sign of things to come?  

28, Unenrolled, MA-08

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by: Marcus @ Tue Mar 08, 2011 at 15:06:31 PM UTC

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Mainly local issues, though if the election HAD been

dominated by national issues, it would have turned out the same- the national CDU is just as unpopular as the local one- especially with the most popular politician in the coalition having resigned.

But Hamburg was about two issues- the butched school reform (http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5814250,00.html) that was absolutely hated by everyone, and the ruling coalition's fuckups in supervising the construction of the Elbphilharmonie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbe_Philharmonic_Hall)- a concert hall- the building time and building costs seem to become more expensive every day.

Lastly, the optics of the break-up of the coalition were terrible, with the Greens unexpectedly leaving the coalition and both parties blaming each other for the mistakes of the last year.

18- Hamburg, Germany (non-US-citizen)

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by: Twohundertseventy @ Tue Mar 08, 2011 at 17:30:06 PM UTC

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I don't know why the links aren't links, haha.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/arti...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

18- Hamburg, Germany (non-US-citizen)

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by: Twohundertseventy @ Tue Mar 08, 2011 at 17:30:53 PM UTC

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Thanks!

I guess Baden-Württemberg will be the key test in a couple weeks, if the CDU loses there too the writing will be on the wall for Merkel, though once again it could be attributed to Stuttgart 21 and not the national climate.

28, Unenrolled, MA-08

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by: Marcus @ Tue Mar 08, 2011 at 21:33:30 PM UTC

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Yes, and Baden-Württemberg is a dead heat.

The last two polls have the CDU-FDP at 45-46% (CDU roughly 38%, FDP roughly 7%), and the SPD-Greens at... 45-46% (SPD at about 26%, Greens at about 20%). The Left is at 4%- narrowly missing the 5%-cutoff for getting seats.

The last election 2006 got the CDU-FDP a combined 55.9% to 36.9% for SPD-Green.

18- Hamburg, Germany (non-US-citizen)

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by: Twohundertseventy @ Tue Mar 08, 2011 at 21:39:29 PM UTC

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Nice work!

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by: emilysdad @ Tue Mar 08, 2011 at 15:04:31 PM UTC

I agree, I like )

It is very interesting.

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by: abgin @ Wed Mar 09, 2011 at 00:11:28 AM UTC

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