The Great Shame

Here's an interesting site that gives a more accurate picture of how the United States was divided in the 2004 presidential election.

Michael Gastner, Cosma Shalizi, and Mark Newman at the University of Michigan use polling data from both the state and county level and use it to proportionally distort maps of the United States based on individual votes and the electoral college.

The results are strikingly different from what the Bush Administration would have you believe, what with their claim of a "mandate."