Map with both people and land

[minionofmidas]

No...
The whole point is, at least if I'm getting it correctly, what he'd like (and he's right) is two maps showing the Dem and Rep vote totals in each county, rather than the margin.
That way, you could actually see how many votes the candidates got there - and you could compare the differences much better.
He said at one point "with this map, you couldn't guess San Diego exists" (the same would go for, say, Indianapolis). This is because there wasn't such a large vote margin, given that these large counties ended up being close. They could, theoretically, just as well be thinly populated, rural counties with vast percentage majorities.
On maps showing actual votes, there'd be large Dem and Rep piles in these counties, that, unlike in Manhattan or Cook county, would have roughly the same height.

[minionofmidas]

Well first thing, you don't know how many votes Kerry had in Phila. You know how many more votes Kerry had than Bush. I think that addresses your entire complaint. Thanks.

Wrong again.  The map shows how many votes Kerry had, not his percentage or even the number of votes over Kerry had over Bush.  The map just shows raw votes, which does tell me much more than cities have a lot of voters and Kerry voters tend to live in cities.  It is not a particularly useful map.

No - it doesn show the number of votes Kerry had over Bush (the margin). Otherwise you would be able to notice there's a big city called San Diego.