Free electoral college map: one square equals one vote

I hope I never see another red-blue map of the USA depicting how many square miles each presidential candidate won in the election. It's inevitable, though; I bet we'll see a thousand versions of it again after tomorrow, depicting the vast stretches of barren, unpopulated wasteland conquered by McCain. [To my Republican friends: Try to picture a smiley-face right here at this spot.]

Here's a better map, in case you want to download it. One square equals one electoral vote. Several of us gathering at my house will be keeping track of election-night progress by coloring in each state as it's called. I think I'll use yellow and green, instead of red and blue.

Click to enlarge. Feel free to download it and send it to friends.

I assembled it in MS Excel, then turned it into a graphic file, based on a similar (interactive) map I saw at this page on the New York Times website. (Click the button that says "Electoral Votes" to switch views).

Comments

[fjarlq]

Interesting map. Along those lines, here's another New York Times visualization, showing each state re-sized in proportion to the relative influence of the individual voters who live there:
Op-Chart: How Much Is Your Vote Worth?
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/11/02/opinion/20081102_OPCHART.html