The recent Democratic primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire are big news these days, but how much do they really matter? I don't know; I'm no political analyst, but the following visualization by WSJ's Brian McGill puts things in perspective. Maybe those primaries matter less than we want them to, as there's still such a long way to go?
Brian designed that cartogram manually, painstakingly copying and pasting nearly four thousand squares. I sympathize with his effort. I've made cartograms like that myself in the past.
You guys! I spent 2 days making a cartogram by hand with 3,979 freaking squares on it. One for each delegate to the Democratic National Convention. Never doing it again.* Apologies to Georgia, you got the short end of the stick shape-wise.— Brian McGill (@brian_mcgill) January 29, 2020
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*absolutely going to to it again pic.twitter.com/1qIgUw1oIc