Election Review, Part 3: The West

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 19th, 2009 5:38 am by HL

Election Review, Part 3: The West
Today we continue our analysis of the 2008 election with a review of the Western Region. This Census Bureau region consists of two divisions: the Pacific West and the Mountain West.

Pacific West The Pacific West is unique if for no other reason than two of its five states were the home states of Presidential candidates. Because of this, it is difficult to analyze these states’ voting patterns. Given the state of McCain’s Alaska polling before the Republican convention, it seems unlikely that he would have won the state by twenty points without Palin on the ticket. Similarly, Obama’s ties to Hawaii probably added to his 40-point victory there. In other words, because of the personal nature of the vote in these small states, we just can’t glean too much useful information from them.

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