At the end of this year, the Census Bureau will report its findings about state population to the government. The data will be used to reassign seats in the House of Representatives and the Electoral College to correctly reflect population. Analysts are estimating that many states in the northeast will lose seats, while the south and
Midwest will gain seats. This map reflects those estimates, which will not be final until January 2011.
There is some speculating as to how this is going to affect the 2012 presidential election. President Obama has not officially announced he will run yet, but everyone is expecting that he will. However, the population changes are not good news for him. The states that are losing votes are traditionally Democratic, and the states that are gaining are Republican. This next presidential race should be a close one.
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