Monday 2011-05-09

The SG election has everyone up in arms here regarding redistricting / gerrymandering. In terms of US presidential elections, how much have the popular votes differed from the electoral votes over the last 50 years?

The red dots are the ratio of democrat electoral votes to republican electoral votes, and the black dots are the ratio of democrat popular votes to republican popular votes. It seems that a lot of arms were twisted for the 1964 election...