{"id":491,"date":"2013-02-14T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/?p=491"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:10:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:10:20","slug":"untying-the-electoral-knot-reimagining-the-states-with-equal-populations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/2013\/02\/14\/untying-the-electoral-knot-reimagining-the-states-with-equal-populations\/","title":{"rendered":"Untying the Electoral Knot: Reimagining the States with Equal Populations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/files\/2013\/02\/Screen-shot-2013-02-14-at-10.57.43-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-492\" alt=\"Screen shot 2013-02-14 at 10.57.43 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/files\/2013\/02\/Screen-shot-2013-02-14-at-10.57.43-AM-300x230.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/files\/2013\/02\/Screen-shot-2013-02-14-at-10.57.43-AM-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/files\/2013\/02\/Screen-shot-2013-02-14-at-10.57.43-AM-1024x786.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/files\/2013\/02\/Screen-shot-2013-02-14-at-10.57.43-AM.png 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2013\/02\/14\/redrawn-united-states-of-electoral-votes\/\">Nathan Yau&#8217;s Flowing Data<\/a> blog, the map reimagines the 50 states with equal populations. \u00a0It&#8217;s a cool g<a href=\"http:\/\/fakeisthenewreal.org\/reform\/\">eographic systems application<\/a> and a nice way to reflect upon the biases in our Electoral College system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hat tip to Nathan Yau&#8217;s Flowing Data blog, the map reimagines the 50 states with equal populations. \u00a0It&#8217;s a cool geographic systems application and a nice way to reflect upon the biases in our Electoral College system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-paul-gronke","category-political-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/politika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}