Decoding the Obama Victory: The Geography of US Presidential Elections

We have reached the final week of the pres­i­den­tial elec­tions course. This week, Mar­tin Lewis slices and dices the elec­toral results of the ’08 elec­tion and high­lights the big and poten­tial­ly far-reach­ing shifts in US vot­ing pat­terns. No doubt, this is one of the more detailed analy­ses that you’ll find on the web. You can watch the last lec­ture in high­er res­o­lu­tion on iTune­sU here, or watch it below on YouTube. The com­plete course will be per­ma­nent­ly housed in our col­lec­tion of Free Online Cours­es under Geog­ra­phy and Polit­i­cal Sci­ence.