Distorting election results ...

The states are colored red or blue to indicate the majority of their voters that voted for Republican John McCain or Democrat Barack Obama. Looking at the map it would seem that the Republicans won when, as we all know, Barack Obama is our President. The error in the map is that is does not account for population density. The Blue Areas may be smaller, but it accounts for a much larger size in population density.

Using a cartogram (right)the map distorts to take into account the population density as well. Now the acreage of the physical space is no longer valid and is replaced with population size.