The Counting of CA-7 and CA-16 2014's Votes: Two Foreboding Examples of the "Blue Shift" Effect?

Author's Notes: I will usually not tell personal stories on this blog, but after conceiving the topic for today's post, I decided to briefly insert a short personal antidote because I personally participated in one of the elections that will be discussed below. The idea for this post came from a Twitter thread I tweeted on Tuesday evening about the CA-16 (encompassing part of my hometown of Fresno) House election in 2014, which pitted Democratic incumbent Jim Costa (D) against Johnny Tacherra (R). 

A Comparison of State-Level Differences in Asian-American Poverty

Author's Notes: You all might notice a major change to the content of this blog, that being the variety and sophistication of data visualizations representing raw data. After initially learning and using Tableau for my graduate capstone project in the Spring, I have been practicing data visualization creation offline. Now, I am please to announce that I will start creating and using Tableau-created visualizations to supplement qualitative information presented on this blog, and may still use Excel-created visualizations in some situations. For today, I will post just the static (non-interactive) versions, and will update this page with the interactive online versions once I make my Tableau public account and publish my visualizations (past and future) there.