Nov 4, 2008
It’s the Geography, Stupid…
Today America votes; drawing to a close another epic, media fuelled, billion dollar US presidential race. As always geography has played its role…
Earlier in the summer Ed Parsons noted the recruitment of a GIS analyst for the Obama campaign…
On the campaign trial John McCain struggled with the Iraq-Pakistan border…
A slip of tongue, or a clue to future foreign policy? Kevin Burke has noted similar geography hiccups from Barack Obama.
Of course long before November 4th, geography and GIS are at work carving the outcome of the election, the folks over at WhyTuesday have posted a clip to YouTube raising awareness of ReDistricting and the dark art of Gerrymandering…
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