Some very cool cartograms show the misleading nature of the standard red-vs-blue map by increasing and decreasing size based on electoral-college votes and county-level returns population. For example, this one:
Note the San Francisco Bay Area has enough voting weight to become easily recognizable on this map, an outsized West-Coast carbuncle. You’ll want to click through and see all the maps and commentary.
Cool Maps. I grew up around maps, and always thought they were pretty neat. These could be used in a class on how to like with statistics.
Er, make that “lie with stats”…
Wondered what you meant with that. 🙂
Click on the link on the page to his colleague’s 2010 statistics.
His maps look a lot redder.
And I’ll bet the 2012 maps are going to be a sea of red.
Yes, the 2008 election went to Obama. I don’t think that is happening again.
Living in a sea of Blue is claustrophobic.