Most people don’t have much of an idea about what is happening in state and local politics in other states. The visualization below shows what party has controlled the governors office in each state since 1991.

People are always curious about how good of job the polls are doing at predicting election results. After the Democratic Primary in Michigan, I wanted to take a look at how well the polls are doing in each state. To visualize this I took the Real Clear Politics average and the actual election results in all the states that this data was available.

Introduction The idea of population centers being strong holds for Democrats in the United States has become almost a meme in the political sphere. Democrats control urban centers, while Republicans gather what support they can…