{"id":656,"date":"2009-10-28T10:07:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T15:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=656"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:42:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:42:20","slug":"%e2%80%9cvoting-america-united-states-politics-1840-2004%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/10\/28\/%e2%80%9cvoting-america-united-states-politics-1840-2004%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cVoting America: United States Politics, 1840-2004\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-655\" title=\"voting\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/10\/voting.jpg\" alt=\"voting\" width=\"250\" height=\"185\" \/>The University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/americanpast.richmond.edu\/voting\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Voting America<\/a>\u201d is great resource on US Presidential elections. The site provides a series of maps on each election between 1840 and 2004\u00a0 that show a variety of different information. For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/americanpast.richmond.edu\/voting\/1860.html\" target=\"_blank\">the 1860 election map <\/a>includes layers that breakdown the popular vote by county and counties with small margins of victories (when a second place candidate lost by less than 10 percent of the vote). The site also organizes the maps by topic, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/americanpast.richmond.edu\/voting\/voterturnout.html\" target=\"_blank\">turnout <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/americanpast.richmond.edu\/voting\/thirdparty.html\" target=\"_blank\">third party voting<\/a>. In addition, this interactive map allows you to select the election data that appears. Also, be sure to check out all of <a href=\"http:\/\/americanpast.richmond.edu\/voting\/expertanalysis.html\" target=\"_blank\">the videos <\/a>\u2013 including <a href=\"http:\/\/americanpast.richmond.edu\/voting\/ayers.html\" target=\"_blank\">this one <\/a>with Professor Edward Ayers who discusses the elections before the Civil War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab\u2019s \u201cVoting America\u201d is great resource on US Presidential elections. The site provides a series of maps on each election between 1840 and 2004\u00a0 that show a variety of different information. For example, the 1860 election map includes layers that breakdown the popular vote by county and counties with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,12],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","category-maps","tag-campaigns-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1994,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/1994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}