{"id":88689,"date":"2024-11-12T06:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88689"},"modified":"2024-11-12T06:32:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T12:32:21","slug":"sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88689","title":{"rendered":"Sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the more surprising results from election night:\u00a0 the nation is more&#8230;not &#8220;conservative&#8221;, probably.\u00a0 More Republican, anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times released a &#8220;shift map&#8221; of election result shifts, by county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"623\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-07-at-7.08.55-AM-1024x623.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88690\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-07-at-7.08.55-AM-1024x623.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-07-at-7.08.55-AM-300x183.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-07-at-7.08.55-AM-768x467.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-07-at-7.08.55-AM-493x300.png 493w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-07-at-7.08.55-AM.png 1060w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s live and interactive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/11\/06\/us\/politics\/presidential-election-2024-red-shift.html\">here<\/a> &#8211; and it&#8217;s an interesting read.   Each red arrow is a county where the vote was more Republican than it was in 2020.  Note that many of the blue arrows in red states &#8211; I&#8217;m looking at you, Oliver County North Dakota &#8211; are counties where the GOP vote dropped from the 90s into the 80s, for example.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More interesting still &#8211; the demographics behind those shifts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"655\" height=\"473\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-07-at-7.13.32-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88692\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-07-at-7.13.32-AM.png 655w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-07-at-7.13.32-AM-300x217.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-07-at-7.13.32-AM-415x300.png 415w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In every category but &#8220;people with lots of years in schools&#8221;, the anti-Trump reaction of 2020 has more than recouped &#8211; in some cases (the urban vote, young people), way way more than recouped. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more surprising results from election night:\u00a0 the nation is more&#8230;not &#8220;conservative&#8221;, probably.\u00a0 More Republican, anyway.\u00a0 The New York Times released a &#8220;shift map&#8221; of election result shifts, by county. It&#8217;s live and interactive here &#8211; and it&#8217;s an interesting read. Each red arrow is a county where the vote was more Republican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88697,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88689\/revisions\/88697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}