A fascinating new way to study the US Election Result...statistically speaking !

Would you believe that this is an actual representation of the US Elections 2012 results ?

As you can see, the states have been stretched and squashed, some of them substantially, to give them the appropriate sizes, though it's done in such a way as to preserve the general appearance of the map, so far as that's possible. On this map there is now clearly more blue than red.

The presidential election, however, is not actually decided on the basis of the number of people who vote for each candidate but on the basis of the electoral college. Under the US electoral system, each state in the union contributes a certain number of electors to the electoral college, who vote according to the majority in their state. (Exceptions are the states of Maine and Nebraska, which use a different formula that allows them to split their electoral votes between candidates.) The candidate receiving a majority of the votes in the electoral college wins the election. The electors are apportioned among the states roughly according to population, as measured by the census, but with a small but deliberate bias in favor of less populous states.

Read more here
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2012/

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Now, results on the Polls !

Now that the dust has settled, I wanted to know how accurate the Polls that kept screaming at us, were.Who better thah Nate Silver himself !

This wonderful analysis on his 538 blog gave me all the answers. I was quite disappointed with Gallup, since, in the 2008 elections I was quite addicted to their polling.

Here is the snapshot of Nate's analysis _

Read more @ http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/10/which-polls-fared-best-and-worst-in-the-2012-presidential-race/