What if? : The US Presidential Elections 2012

This is a little fun twist to my earlier post on the US Presidential Elections.

Now What If, you have this illuminatic influence that could change the result of the last election?

What If, your opinions on certain issues could sway some voters into a zombie like state and control the election results to your liking?

What if, being a religious cult leader, you have 20% control of voting Americans that will follow you, either being more liberal or conservative.

Now, you do, well at least on the Viz below, see how your opinions on key issues as seen in The Sacramento Bee can influence the outcome of the elections based on the recent poll results.

You will have power to represent around 20% of American voters that might change the outcome of the recent elections.

-Zan

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US Presidental Elections 2012

Hi guys,

Just whiff up a very quick Viz on the Presidential elections, mind taking a look and comment?

I was following the polls on CNN just now and  thought, "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if I can show this in Tableau?"

So I started looking for the election results which is abundant on the interweb, and took this data off Huffington Post (credit to their very nice visuals on the campaign).

I just directly copied their tabular data into Excel, cleaned up a bit because they were using graphics in the table, then connect to Tableau and build the dashboard below. I know the data is a bit inaccurate (which I have corrected) due to my own stupidity for not checking out Florida lack of knowledge in US polling calculations.. I'd appreciate your comments.

p/s: What's up with Florida btw?

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-Zan