This is an amazing and fun way to use maps to tell the story of the 2018 mid-term elections and the voting profile in Allegheny County. It also more effectively demonstrated the case for the rejected Children’s Fund than the ballot initiative organizers were able to make.
By Ann Wright.
In this interactive map, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette demonstrates nicely how few registered Democrats bothered to take a few minutes and vote in an election that arguably affects their lives more than…well most other elections.
Click on the map above, or HERE to see, by district, how many people didn’t vote, versus the number that voted for each candidate.
Stealing another map from Pitt’s Pittsburgh PUB.
Be sure to check out other fun Mayoral candidate maps, charts, and figures on the Null Space blog, including a post that shows maps of the 1989 and 1997 City of Pittsburgh Democratic Primary results.
Devastating Port Authority service cuts were announced that it would have to cut services by 35% by September 2. The above map shows the devastation.
Here’s another map that shows the ACCESS service cuts in pink. Thanks to the ACTC blog for that one.
How sad.
What are the chances that the following maps have anything to do with the current problems that we face and the unwillingness of the state to take this crisis seriously?
Hmmmmm Tom Corbett?
Here’s some more insight and the fact that we’re not alone.
Pittsburgh doesn’t like Senator Pat Toomey (R). But we’re surrounded by a bunch of jags who do. The further you go, the more you like him. Ewww.
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