2008 Election Map (Corrected and Scaled for Population)

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2008 Election Map (Corrected and Scaled for Population)
      

Now here's a cartogram of the election by Professor Mark Newman of the University of Michigan that reflects a truer representation of voting in the 2008 election, showing "the effects of the electoral college by scaling the sizes of states to be proportional to their number of electoral votes."

As he concludes, "The areas of red and blue on the cartogram are now proportional to the actual numbers of electoral votes won by each candidate. Thus this map shows at a glance both which states went to which candidate and which candidate won more electoral college votes – something that you cannot tell easily from the normal election-night red and blue map."

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