Interesting Statement on Elections Mapping

As Sue and Jesse noted yesterday, I was conspicuously absent from Very Spatial since I was obsessively consuming election coverage all day yesterday. This morning while reading Salon’s (WARNING: requires paid subscription OR watching of a short ad to view the whole article!) election coverage, I ran across this little tidbit,

At the beginning of this year, the conventional wisdom was that computer-based mapping and cynical gerrymandering all but guaranteed a GOP stranglehold on the House, even in the face of the Iraq war and Bush’s plummeting polls.

I wasn’t personally aware of this ‘conventional wisdom’, but I think it’s extremely interesting for the popular recognition of GIS technologies. These technologies are just going to grow and grow in our popular lexicon, not that we really have to convince anybody in the GIS field of this 🙂