-- This is an Entrance example, http://dbentrance.com/ -- This script colors the US States based on -- whether the NY Times said they were rated -- strong mccain -- leaning mccain -- tossup -- leaning obama -- strong obama -- on August 30, 2008 on their web site: -- http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/president/whos-ahead/key-states/map.html" -- drop table if exists election_projection; create table election_projection ( name varchar(255), who varchar(255) ); insert into election_projection values ('Alabama','tossup'), ('Alaska','strong mccain'), ('Arizona','strong mccain'), ('Arkansas','strong mccain'), ('California','strong obama'), ('Colorado','tossup'), ('Connecticut','tossup'), ('Delaware','strong obama'), ('District of Columbia','strong obama'), ('Florida','leaning mccain'), ('Georgia','leaning mccain'), ('Hawaii','strong obama'), ('Idaho','strong mccain'), ('Illinois','strong obama'), ('Indiana','tossup'), ('Iowa','leaning obama'), ('Kansas','strong mccain'), ('Kentucky','strong mccain'), ('Louisiana','tossup'), ('Maine','strong obama'), ('Maryland','strong obama'), ('Massachusetts','strong obama'), ('Michigan','tossup'), ('Minnesota','leaning obama'), ('Mississippi','strong mccain'), ('Missouri','leaning mccain'), ('Montana','leaning mccain'), ('Nebraska','strong mccain'), ('Nevada','tossup'), ('New Hampshire','tossup'), ('New Jersey','tossup'), ('New Mexico','tossup'), ('New York','strong obama'), ('North Carolina','tossup'), ('North Dakota','leaning mccain'), ('Ohio','tossup'), ('Oklahoma','strong mccain'), ('Oregon','leaning obama'), ('Pennsylvania','leaning obama'), ('Rhode Island','tossup'), ('South Carolina','strong mccain'), ('South Dakota','tossup'), ('Tennessee','strong mccain'), ('Texas','strong mccain'), ('Utah','strong mccain'), ('Vermont','strong obama'), ('Virginia','leaning obama'), ('Washington','leaning obama'), ('West Virginia','tossup'), ('Wisconsin','tossup'), ('Wyoming','tossup') ; PLOT USColoringBook LAYER, COLOR OVERRIDE WITH TRANSLUCENCE 255 NO SIDES NO XAXIS NO YAXIS NO OUTLINE FRAME 100 0 600 375 PAGE 0 0 1200 375 BACKGROUND gray FOREGROUND white LEGEND at 600 150 dark scarletred LEGENDITEM "Strong McCain" light scarletred LEGENDITEM "Leaning McCain" dark skyblue LEGENDITEM "Strong Obama" light skyblue LEGENDITEM "Leaning Obama" light butter LEGENDITEM "Tossup" font "sans serif" plain 18 select name, concat( if(who like 'leaning%', 'light', 'dark'), ' ', if(who like '%mccain', 'scarletred', 'skyblue')) from election_projection where who not like 'tossup' union select name, 'light butter' from election_projection where who like 'tossup' union select "states_outline", "white"; report title " Redrawn using Entrance based on data from:" title " " title " NY Times 'The Electoral Map', August 30, 2008" title " http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/president/whos-ahead/key-states/map.html" title " " background gray foreground white PAGE 0 0 1200 600 select '';