I am sure most people outside of the US are sick and tired of hearing about the US Presidential election. As part and parcel of the election coverage, we have had this overdose of the RED and BLUE coloured maps of the US showing how much of the popular mandate Bush has received. And what you see are the the huge swath of red with small slivers of blue on the two coasts and some blu on the top part. This is the geographical map of the US. It does little (if any) justice to the actual population representation of the US. If you were to distort the map of the US such that it was proportional to the number of people in the state, you would get something like this population proportional map. It makes for a more factual representation of the current election. Thanks to the TPM posting for showing me the light.