Election Maps

Some people have way too much free time... even more than me, it seems...

Next time some red-stater points to the Electoral College map and tries to impress you with how much dirt voted for Bush, refer them to these much more informative maps:

The now famous "purple map":
http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/election2004/

And some fascinating Cartograms (states deformed to represent number of votes):
http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~sara/html/mapping/election/election04/election.html
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/politics/2004_ELECTIONRESULTS_GRAPHIC/

These are clear proof that the US ain't nearly as polarized as the winner-take-all electoral map makes things appear.