It’s been a busy week, but with the dust settled from Super Tuesday, we now have a clear picture of who won.
On the Democratic side, Barack Obama took 14 states to Hillary Clinton’s eight, although Hillary prevailed in more populous states like California and New York. The result was a near-tie: Hillary won 50.2 percent and Obama took 49.8 percent.
Hillary did the best on the coasts, but also won inland states like Tennessee, Oklahoma and Arizona. Her win in California, where the Clinton brand is strong, was perhaps the most impressive – the state was expected to be a nail-biter but she won by nearly 10 points.
Meanwhile, the Obama camp is touting victories in red states such as Missouri, Kansas, Utah and Idaho, as well as decisive wins in the deep southern states of Georgia and Alabama. His wins in Connecticut and New Mexico were also surprising.
Super Tuesday Democratic Electoral Map (New York Times)
California Democratic Electoral Map (New York Times)
Georgia Democratic Electoral Map (New York Times)
On the Republican side, it was John McCain’s day. He dominated big states like California and New York and won every state on the Metroliner Corridor besides Romney’s Massachusetts (although McCain did win Boston).
McCain also posted victories in crucial heartland states like Missouri and Illinois. McCain won Peoria County, Ill. thereby answering the question “Will it play in Peoria?” But in Missouri, he lost Rush Limbaugh’s home county of Cape Girardeau. The Peoria and Cape Girardeau outcomes say a lot of McCain’s appeal: He’s accepted in the mainstream but has trouble in conservative bastions.
Mike Huckabee swept SEC country, from Fayetteville to Athens. Mitt Romney took the silver medal in the delegate count, and won the states he’s lived in along with a handful of Western states, but it wasn’t enough to keep him competitive.
Super Tuesday Republican Electoral Map (New York Times)
Missouri Republican Electoral Map (New York Times)
Cartophiliac
7 February 2008 at 4:43 PM
Patrick, love the maps and analysis as always. However, I’m always bothered by the use of the U.S. map to show who won which state. The sparsly populated large states always seem to skew the image… Barak Obama won more states, but many of them were smaller population states like North Dakota. From reading Cartophilia, you may know I am enamored of population cartograms. I’d like to see more news sources use maps like this: http://cartophilia.com/blog/grafx/supertuesday08.GIF
Patrick Ottenhoff
7 February 2008 at 4:47 PM
I love it! I’ll post it.
Jim
7 February 2008 at 8:50 PM
Barak won 13
Hillary won 9 including American Somoa
And looks like she will actuall win 10 with New Mexico.
FYI Hillary took 14 counties in his representive state of Illinois and he only took 1 county in her representative state of New York