And the winner is ...Congratulations to David Homol of Moon Middle School in Moon Township, Pennsylvania Moon Township is located along the Ohio River in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The origin of township's name is unknown for certain, however, it is believed to be named after a crescent-shaped bend in the river. ! Out of the 8,373 entries we received in our "You Call the Electoral Vote!" contest, only David and four other JS readers filled in the map correctly--286 electoral votes for George W. Bush and 252 for John Kerry. From those five entries, we selected one winner at random. As our winner, David will receive a $500 U.S. Savings Bond Savings bond A government bond issued in face value denominations from $50 to $10,000, with local and state tax-free interest and semiannually adjusted interest rates. savings bond A nonmarketable security issued by the U.S. . The other four students will each receive an illustrated history of the White House for their outstanding work. They are: Melissa Milbrandt of Jefferson Middle School Jefferson Middle School is a middle school located in Jefferson City, Tennessee. The middle school is home to the football team the Elks, which has won more conference champs than any other middle school in Tennessee. in Madison, Wisconsin, and Allison Copelan, Brennan Pore, and Zachary Peck of Chatham Charter School in Slier sli·er adj. A comparative of sly. City, North Carolina. At right, the 2004 electoral map is shown as a cartogram cartogram a map showing the distribution of a population by area. . A cartogram is a map that conveys statistics visually. In this case, each state is sized according to the number of its electoral votes. The cartogram, which divides the U.S. into four regions, shows that the election was far closer than the ordinary electoral map suggests. Why do you think the two maps look so different? |
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