A big thanks to
John Sides for pointing out the
spmap feature in Stata, which allows me to use GIS data in a platform with which I'm already familiar. Anyway, you may recall that I found a
nice little correlation a while back between the location of Obama's field offices and the Democratic surge between 2004 and 2008. I can now map this. In the Colorado map below, the bluer counties are those that saw a greater shift toward the Democrats between 2004 and 2008. The red dots mark those counties with Obama field offices.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj794vt8hGQOSoEAixo11Z15jAsSz6AdioCrFEHJ9nwXW49koOI0MWn26AY_4NFXUhgXYiyexYTJNbH38g9zdfDVXxme0wheeLt4H_TK0pVwSdNQn_sbz_cjwibO3yw4HYKXf8lp0tvVYA/s400/CO+dem+surge.png)
Not a perfect correlation, but definitely a pattern.
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