More simply. What makes a bellwether is the victory, not the margin. The previous lists and tables were doing just fine. You added percentage margin, which in reality adds nothing to the point.
I agree that the notion of a bell weather only relies on victory. The whole notion of a bell weather is an instable one though. A small pertubation to a county result such as 50.1 to 49.9 to 49.9 to 50.1 changes the bell weather result completely and hence the bell weather designation is unstable.
Seems a less useful method of displaying this data.
How would you show it?
More simply. What makes a bellwether is the victory, not the margin. The previous lists and tables were doing just fine. You added percentage margin, which in reality adds nothing to the point.
I agree that the notion of a bell weather only relies on victory. The whole notion of a bell weather is an instable one though. A small pertubation to a county result such as 50.1 to 49.9 to 49.9 to 50.1 changes the bell weather result completely and hence the bell weather designation is unstable.