Better USA election map

I love how design can be used to make quite complex matters easy to understand at a glance.

This map (a bigger and clearer version is over at the Princeton site) combines the idea of the two I mentioned earlier. It's interesting that there seem to be even clearer patterns: the Democrat vote isn't as concentrated as it appeared before - there's a definite vertical strip in the mid west, but nowhere near as deep red as the states down the centre, It's less of a whitewash than the earlier district map suggested and really highlights how close the final result was.