October 15, 2008 lecture by Professor Martin Lewis for the Geography of United States Elections (GEOG 5) course. Professor Lewis covers the basic principle of political geography; the "red and blue" map of the United States; different ways of mapping U.S. presidential elections; differences in voting behavior between national elections and state and local elections; electoral geography in selected foreign countries.

1. Course Introduction
2. The basic principles of political geography
3. U.S. Presidential elections: 1789 to 1916
4. U.S. Presidential elections: 1920 to 1996
5. U.S. Presidential elections: 2000 and 2004
6. The 2008 election

Led by Martin Lewis, this map-intensive course will explore the geography of US elections (both past and present), and challenge the suggestion that we are simply divided into a Red America and Blue America. Its really much more complicated than that.