Returning to the purple state discussions, here's an article about how
Florida's plurality democratic electorate and its compact, contiguous,
ungerrymandered voting precincts favor republican candidates.
http://www.stanford.edu/~jowei/identified.pdf
The paper appeared on Andrew Gelman's Statistical Modeling, Causal
Inference, and Social
Science<http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/mlm/>
blog.
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2009/11/toblers_law_urb.html
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