Back when it was legal in Illinois to post campaign signs on telephones, we got a kick out of one very tall conservative frantically running around with his step ladder, flooding the district with signs for himself and his candidates so high that no one else could remove them.
That used to bother me until one day my mentor just laughed and said, "People vote. Telephone poles don't."
I've seen this representation before, and there is little really new in this diary, except...
after all the discussion over how "red" the State of Virginia looks on a traditional map, and the cries of "how can this be?" one person, Mark Newman from the University of Michigan, seems to have the best explanation with his analysis of the 2012 Presidential Election votes. He says, "We can correct for this by making use of a cartogram, a map in which the sizes of states are rescaled according to their population."
PEOPLE VOTE. We need to be looking at People Maps, not Land Mass Maps.
Election results by county
...Here is a map of US counties, again colored red and blue to indicate Republican and Democratic majorities respectively:
The map above does not take into account the number of people who live and vote in each of those counties.
...Here is what the cartogram looks like for the county-level election returns:
These graphic images demonstrate why 1) TeaPublicans pay more attention to geography than they do to people, and as a result, 2) TeaPublicans really do think they are a majority.
Nothing more below the squiggle, but much more in the original article by Mark Newman.