Red state, blue state
Resizing geographic areas by population gives more accurate view of 2012 election
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/346315/title/Red_state%2C_blue_state
My wife was talking about this the other day: how looking at the typical US map of ‘red’ vs ‘blue’ states from the election made it look like the ‘reds’ were winning in a landslide. I told her about the population issue, but these images capture it vera well indeed. The top map is the typical one we are likely all familiar with. The second (middle) map is skewed based on population and already you can see a vast difference. The bottom one is based on electoral votes and it become clear that the election was close, but also that blue is greater than red.
