Need election data... help?

[Peak_Oil]

I'm looking for election returns broken out by population density. Specifically, what were the returns for urban vs rural populations. Is there a place I can go to find this out? I've spent the last hour on Google but can't quite get an answer to this.

I'm in the middle of a debate with a guy who's claiming that cities vote more in a bloc than rural voters do. If I recall correctly, the places that went to the Republican party went heavily, and the Democratic wins were a much closer call, suggesting a more concentrated Republican vote.

Anyway, do any of you know a place to go for this?

[Time for change]

1. If you go to this site

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/president/

You can get the county vote for every U.S. county. So all you would need then is the population density of the counties in order to make the comparison. I'm sure that there are plenty of Atlases that would have population and areas of counties, from which you could figure out population densities.

[emlev]

2. This might not be broken down enough

There are plenty of counties that are partly rural, partly urban. I think for accurate info you need precinct-level info. That's much more tedious to get and to analyze.

[rdmccur]

3. There is a map of the US

showing the demographic breakout of Kerry vs Bush vote percentages
at this site: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/
(Scroll down near the bottom)
Maybe you can dig from this and find something--someone had this data to make this map.

[Time for change]

4. After thinking about this more

it seems to me that you're asking two different questions. Onc concerns votes by population density, and the other concerns voting in blocks. The way you would analyze the data, and the kind of data you would need would depend on which question you were really interested in. You can pm me at [e-mail] if you're interested in discussing it further.

[PaIndependent]

5. www.uscountvotes.org

If you are interested in gathering the precinct-level data that it sounds like you need, check out www.uscountvotes.org. We can use all the help we can get. It's easy work gathering the data, just time-consuming.