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Despite the general media coloring Democrats as blue and Republicans as red, the Atlas website uses blue for Republicans and red for Democrats. The website predates the conventional color scheme, which has only been in place since 2000; see
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describes it as "great-if-not-super-modern" and notes that "perhaps more interestingly, it lets us figure out which voters actually mattered -- that is, the votes cast before and after a candidate clinched the nomination."
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offices which published election data on-line from 1996 onwards. The site was originally hosted by MIT, but moved to its own
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for presidential (1789–present), senatorial (1990 and onwards), and gubernatorial (1990 and onwards) elections. Data include
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The site has been used a reference for U.S. election and political data by major media outlets including
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The web site was created by electrical engineer David Leip from
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Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, LLC
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has referred the web site as "indispensable", while
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Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, LLC
uselectionatlas.org
tables
graphs
maps
candidates
parties
electoral vote
County
Nate Silver
Massachusetts
1992 presidential election
MIT
1996 presidential election
Secretary of state
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mapmaking
Red states and blue states
PolitiFact.com
The Washington Post
U.S. News & World Report
The Atlantic
The Wall Street Journal
Roll Call
CBS News
Politico
Men's Health
Silver, Nate
"How FiveThirtyEight Calculates Pollster Ratings"
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