{"id":8695,"date":"2011-04-08T00:06:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T04:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8695"},"modified":"2011-04-07T17:10:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T21:10:02","slug":"graphic-illustrating-why-i-dont-expect-my-mp-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/08\/graphic-illustrating-why-i-dont-expect-my-mp-to-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphic illustrating why I don&#8217;t expect my MP to change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Whitby-Oshawa_2008voting.jpg\" alt=\"Whitby-Oshawa 2008 voting\" title=\"Whitby-Oshawa 2008 voting\" width=\"360\" height=\"440\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Whitby-Oshawa_2008voting.jpg 360w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Whitby-Oshawa_2008voting-122x150.jpg 122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Whitby-Oshawa_2008legend.jpg\" alt=\"Whitby-Oshawa 2008 legend\" title=\"Whitby-Oshawa 2008 legend\" width=\"70\" height=\"544\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8697\" \/>Here&#8217;s the riding of Whitby-Oshawa in the 2008 election. Notice all that deep blue colour? As the legend says, the opacity of colour indicates the strength of the party in that area. Up in the Brooklin area, you can barely see the underlying road pattern for all the blueness.<\/p>\n<p>You can find how blue (or red, or whatever) your riding is by using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberpresse.ca\/actualites\/elections-federales\/canada-2008\/\" target=\"_blank\">cyberpresse.ca Interactive map<\/a> (this is now available in English: the original was in French). It&#8217;s another illustration of how to use Google Maps to display geographical data in interesting ways.<\/p>\n<p>This time around, I&#8217;ll at least have a Libertarian candidate to vote for: Josh Insang is running for the Libertarian Party. Check the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertarian.ca\/english\/libertarian-candidate-guidelines.html\" target=\"_blank\">LPC Candidate page<\/a> to see if you have a Libertarian running in your riding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the riding of Whitby-Oshawa in the 2008 election. Notice all that deep blue colour? As the legend says, the opacity of colour indicates the strength of the party in that area. Up in the Brooklin area, you can barely see the underlying road pattern for all the blueness. You can find how blue (or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,53],"tags":[188,328,550,624,453],"class_list":["post-8695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-politics","tag-electionwatch","tag-google","tag-libertarianism","tag-maps","tag-whitby"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2gf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8695"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8707,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695\/revisions\/8707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}