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For the politics nerds out there, Andrew Gelman has a very good summary of yesterday’s election. The bottom line: Obama won the young vote with an unusual amount. A bit surprisingly, however, young people did not have a higher turnout than normally (at least not significantly so). Less surprisingly minority groups favoured Obama with a bigger margin than they favoured Kerry in 2004.

Gelman also points out that Obama did not redraw the map in any important way, but rather the entire electorate moved a bit in the Democrats’ direction. Have a look yourselves!

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HT: Tyler Cowen
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