{"id":15435,"date":"2017-12-07T18:53:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T23:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=15435"},"modified":"2017-12-07T18:53:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T23:53:36","slug":"mapping-the-chance-of-an-upset-in-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/12\/mapping-the-chance-of-an-upset-in-alabama\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping the Chance of an Upset in Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Washington Post<\/em> assesses<\/a> Democrat Doug Jones’s chances against Republican Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate election next month by mapping three factors: the extent to which Moore underperformed Mitt Romney in 2012 (Moore ran for chief justice of Alabama in 2012 at the same time Romney ran for president), the racial makeup of Alabama’s precincts and the 2016 precinct-level election results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post assesses Democrat Doug Jones’s chances against Republican Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate election next month by mapping three factors: the extent to which Moore underperformed Mitt Romney in 2012 (Moore ran… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[778,158],"class_list":["post-15435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-politics","tag-alabama","tag-usa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":462416,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/12\/mapping-the-alabama-senate-election-results\/","url_meta":{"origin":15435,"position":0},"title":"Mapping the Alabama Senate Election Results","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 December 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"The results of last week's special Alabama senate election have been crunched and mapped. Matthew Isbell looks at some of the factors that contributed to Doug Jones's upset win: education, race and voter turnout. Lots of county-by-county choropleth maps to mull over here. 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This is one of several map books\u00a0published by Birlinn that cover the history of Scotland in maps: previous volumes\u00a0include\u00a0Edinburgh: Mapping\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"glasgow-mapping-the-city","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/glasgow-mapping-the-city-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1845251,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/12\/alabamas-new-election-map-was-drawn-by-a-teenager\/","url_meta":{"origin":15435,"position":2},"title":"Alabama\u2019s New Election Map Was Drawn by a Teenager","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"1 December 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Alabama\u2019s state senate elections will now use a map drawn by an 18-year-old student. The judge chose the map over options put forward by the court\u2019s special master because it changed the existing map less (see the court decision). The new map was necessary after the judge found the previous\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3334,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/11\/two-looks-back-at-the-2012-results\/","url_meta":{"origin":15435,"position":3},"title":"Two Looks Back at the 2012 Results","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 November 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Before we're inundated by the results from the 2016 U.S. presidential election,\u00a0here are a couple of looks back at the 2012 election that explore the results from slightly different angles. This map\u00a0shows the county-by-county results but the intensity is by raw vote totals, not percentages: the darker the colour, the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"2012-by-population","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2012-by-population-1024x759.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2012-by-population-1024x759.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2012-by-population-1024x759.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2012-by-population-1024x759.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3962,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/02\/sweet-home-alabamas-history-in-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":15435,"position":4},"title":"Sweet Home: Alabama’s History in Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"26 February 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Sweet Home: Alabama's History in Maps\u00a0\"is an exhibit presented by the Birmingham Public Library in celebration of Alabama's bicentennial. 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