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I wonder if the author is perhaps clandestinely trying to tell us something:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/countycart...

http://www.digitalapoptosis.com/archives/science/000455.html

Our startups' past election maps:

http://www.uuorld.com/blog/?page_id=114

We're processing the new data as we speak. Should be up later today or tomorrow.

The BBC actually used electoral-vote-cartograms for its real-time results, which was pretty handy. Showed a much more realistic picture of what was going on.

Made with Gimp!

More accurately, "some artistic refinements were added using Gimp".

awesome to see such a pro creative commons stance! http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/faq.html

very interesting to compare to 2004: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2004/

Heh. Anyone notice any similarities between the two pages?

"Wyoming, for instance, has approximately doubled in size, precisely because of the bias in favor of small states. "

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