The Map is Not the Territory

Okay. Today’s Boston Globe map of voting results shown in red and blue landed in my email this morning and I nearly passed out. According to this map, voters for Kerry are about to be shoved into the ocean or crushed between converging middle-American landmasses.

Are we really the next endangered species?

Ah, no. According to Princeton University's professor of mathematics and computer science Robert Vanderbei's maps, liberals ain't goin' nowhere.

Not only stunning in beauty and complexity, these maps clearly show America as predominantly purple, not red. In fact, his topographical map illustrates that the most truly red states are comprised of western counties (some nearly the size of Rhode Island!) that trail down through the center of the country into Texas.

Now, if only those pretty maps weren't based on an ugly lie...