The way the Red/Blue Maps should REALLY look:

I found this at Salon.


http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/

snip>>

... The blue may be small in area, but they are large in terms of numbers of people, which is what matters in an election.

We can correct for this by making use of a cartogram, a map in which the sizes of states have been rescaled according to their population. That is, states are drawn with a size proportional not to their sheer topographic acreage -- which has little to do with politics -- but to the number of their inhabitants, states with more people appearing larger than states with fewer, regardless of their actual area on the ground. Thus, on such a map, the state of Rhode Island, with its 1.1 million inhabitants, would appear about twice the size of Wyoming, which has half a million, even though Wyoming has 60 times the acreage of Rhode Island.


Should look like:



Another groovy cartogram:

Ohio and Florida would be blue if they were not stolen.

as long as we are correcting things.

...just in time for the holidays.

It's like on the "Big BLock of Cheese Day" on West Wing when the cartographers flipped the world map upside down.

But it makes a good point.

:kick:

Is the number of electoral votes a state gets based on the population of that state?