The Red/Blue Map is a Load of Hockey

[QC]

To put it politely, in accordance with the new rules (which I support, BTW.)

We all know that there are big variations in political support inside states, and we all understand how winner-take-all elections tend to exaggerate one or the other party's support within any given state.

We also all understand that vast, sparsely-populated expanses of desert and plains do not mean much in terms of population, which is how we vote.

That's why this map is the smart one, because it expresses the parties' relative support in shades of purple (remember from your old art classes, blue + red = purple) in accordance with each state's vote in the 2000 election.



So what does the real electoral map tell us?