Thursday, November 04, 2004
Election Results
When I looked at the map below, something jumped out at me. The blue states in the east look like the map of the Ivy League. The center blue map looks kinda like the map for the Big 10 conference, the western states map out the Pac8 conference before the addition of the AZ schools. I started to wonder if there was any correlation between which states had good schools and which states voted for Kerry.
Election Map
I went to US NEWS and WORLD REPORT's website and found their list of the top 50 Universities. Below is a list of those schools in the font color of the way their state voted.
source data:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/natudoc/tier1/t1natudoc_brief.php
Rank School State
1 Harvard University (MA)
2 Princeton University (NJ)
3 Yale University (CT)
4 University of Pennsylvania (PA)
5 Duke University (NC)
6 Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MA)
7 Stanford University (CA)
8 California Institute of Technology (CA)
9 Columbia University (NY)
10 Dartmouth College (NH)
11 Northwestern University (IL)
12 Washington University in St. Louis (MO)
13 Brown University (RI)
14 Cornell University (NY)
15 Johns Hopkins University (MD)
16 University of Chicago (IL)
17 Rice University (TX)
18 University of Notre Dame (IN)
19 Vanderbilt University (TN)
20 Emory University (GA)
21 University of California – Berkeley (CA)
22 Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
23 University of Michigan (MI)
24 University of Virginia (VA)
25 Georgetown University (DC)
26 U. of California – Los Angeles (CA)
27 Wake Forest University (NC)
28 Tufts University (MA)
29 U. of North Carolina – Chapel Hill (NC)
30 Univ. of Southern California (CA)
31 College of William and Mary (VA)
32 Brandeis University (MA)
33 New York University (NY)
34 Univ. of Wisconsin – Madison (WI)
35 Case Western Reserve Univ. (OH)
36 Univ. of California – San Diego (CA)
37 Boston College (MA)
38 Lehigh University (PA)
39 U. of Illinois – Urbana - Champaign (IL)
40 University of Rochester (NY)
41 Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
42 University of California – Davis (CA)
43 Tulane University (LA)
44 University of California – Irvine (CA)
45 Univ. of California – Santa Barbara (CA)
46 Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (NY)
47 University of Texas – Austin (TX)
48 University of Washington (WA)
49 Yeshiva University (NY)\
50 Pennsylvania State U. – (PA)
50(tie) University of Florida (FL)
36-15 the state with the top 50 (including one tie) schools voted for John Kerry.
Then I went to Wired Magazine's "Wired 40-masters of innovation, technology, and strategic vision - 40 companies driving the global economy"
source: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.06/wired40.html?pg=4
Company Name, Headquarters according to Yahoo Finance
1. Google Mountain View, CA
2. Amazon.com Seattle, WA
3. Apple Computer Cupertino, CA
4. Genentech South San Francisco, CA
5. EBay San Jose, CA
6. Samsung Electronics Korea
7. Yahoo! Sunnyvale, CA
8. Electronic Arts Redwood City, CA
9. Pixar Emeryville, CA
10. Cisco Systems San Jose, CA
11. Infosys Technologies Bangalore
12. Dell Computer Austin, TX
13. IBM Armonk, NY
14. SAP Walldorf, Germany
15. Nokia Japan
16. Netflix Los Gatos, CA
17. Monsanto ST. Louis, MO
18. Toyota Motor Japan
19. Vodafone Group England
20. Flextronics Singapore
21. InterActiveCorp New York, NY
22. Nvidia Santa Clara, CA
23. WPP Group Great Britan
24. Intel Santa Clara, CA
25. EMC Hpokinton, MA
26. FedEx Memphis, TN
27. Microsoft Redmond, WA
28. Pfizer NY, NY
29. Costco Wholesale Issaquah, WA
30. Comcast Philadelphia, PA
31. Taiwan Semiconductor Taiwan
32. Ameritrade Omaha, NE
33. Gen-Probe San Diego, CA
34. Ryanair Dublin, Ireland
35. L-3 NY, NY
36. Citigroup NY,NY
37. Level 3 Bloomfield, CO
38. Inditex Spain
39. JDS Uniphase San Jose, CA
40. BP London
In this list, 23 companies are in states Kerry won, 5 companies are in states Bush won. So I don't want to draw too many conclusions from these two lists, but I think it would be safe to say that if you live in a state which has a top school or a top company, your state probably voted for John Kerry.
Election Map
I went to US NEWS and WORLD REPORT's website and found their list of the top 50 Universities. Below is a list of those schools in the font color of the way their state voted.
source data:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/natudoc/tier1/t1natudoc_brief.php
Rank School State
1 Harvard University (MA)
2 Princeton University (NJ)
3 Yale University (CT)
4 University of Pennsylvania (PA)
5 Duke University (NC)
6 Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MA)
7 Stanford University (CA)
8 California Institute of Technology (CA)
9 Columbia University (NY)
10 Dartmouth College (NH)
11 Northwestern University (IL)
12 Washington University in St. Louis (MO)
13 Brown University (RI)
14 Cornell University (NY)
15 Johns Hopkins University (MD)
16 University of Chicago (IL)
17 Rice University (TX)
18 University of Notre Dame (IN)
19 Vanderbilt University (TN)
20 Emory University (GA)
21 University of California – Berkeley (CA)
22 Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
23 University of Michigan (MI)
24 University of Virginia (VA)
25 Georgetown University (DC)
26 U. of California – Los Angeles (CA)
27 Wake Forest University (NC)
28 Tufts University (MA)
29 U. of North Carolina – Chapel Hill (NC)
30 Univ. of Southern California (CA)
31 College of William and Mary (VA)
32 Brandeis University (MA)
33 New York University (NY)
34 Univ. of Wisconsin – Madison (WI)
35 Case Western Reserve Univ. (OH)
36 Univ. of California – San Diego (CA)
37 Boston College (MA)
38 Lehigh University (PA)
39 U. of Illinois – Urbana - Champaign (IL)
40 University of Rochester (NY)
41 Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
42 University of California – Davis (CA)
43 Tulane University (LA)
44 University of California – Irvine (CA)
45 Univ. of California – Santa Barbara (CA)
46 Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (NY)
47 University of Texas – Austin (TX)
48 University of Washington (WA)
49 Yeshiva University (NY)\
50 Pennsylvania State U. – (PA)
50(tie) University of Florida (FL)
36-15 the state with the top 50 (including one tie) schools voted for John Kerry.
Then I went to Wired Magazine's "Wired 40-masters of innovation, technology, and strategic vision - 40 companies driving the global economy"
source: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.06/wired40.html?pg=4
Company Name, Headquarters according to Yahoo Finance
1. Google Mountain View, CA
2. Amazon.com Seattle, WA
3. Apple Computer Cupertino, CA
4. Genentech South San Francisco, CA
5. EBay San Jose, CA
6. Samsung Electronics Korea
7. Yahoo! Sunnyvale, CA
8. Electronic Arts Redwood City, CA
9. Pixar Emeryville, CA
10. Cisco Systems San Jose, CA
11. Infosys Technologies Bangalore
12. Dell Computer Austin, TX
13. IBM Armonk, NY
14. SAP Walldorf, Germany
15. Nokia Japan
16. Netflix Los Gatos, CA
17. Monsanto ST. Louis, MO
18. Toyota Motor Japan
19. Vodafone Group England
20. Flextronics Singapore
21. InterActiveCorp New York, NY
22. Nvidia Santa Clara, CA
23. WPP Group Great Britan
24. Intel Santa Clara, CA
25. EMC Hpokinton, MA
26. FedEx Memphis, TN
27. Microsoft Redmond, WA
28. Pfizer NY, NY
29. Costco Wholesale Issaquah, WA
30. Comcast Philadelphia, PA
31. Taiwan Semiconductor Taiwan
32. Ameritrade Omaha, NE
33. Gen-Probe San Diego, CA
34. Ryanair Dublin, Ireland
35. L-3 NY, NY
36. Citigroup NY,NY
37. Level 3 Bloomfield, CO
38. Inditex Spain
39. JDS Uniphase San Jose, CA
40. BP London
In this list, 23 companies are in states Kerry won, 5 companies are in states Bush won. So I don't want to draw too many conclusions from these two lists, but I think it would be safe to say that if you live in a state which has a top school or a top company, your state probably voted for John Kerry.
# posted by Mike @ 5:06 PM 
