Interesting Map...a little late.

I found this map while clicking around on various geography related sites. This is a map of the results from the 2004 US Presidential Election. This first map is a very generic version of the results, red representing state where a majority of the voters cast a ballot for republican. Blue represents where a majority of the voters who voted democratic.The map below tries to represent the raw data more accurately*, where purple represents counties where only a slim majority voted republican. I thought this was a good illustration of no only how data can be represented in different ways through a map, but also how changing the scale you are representing can change the overall impact of a map.
On this website they also do some cool things with cartograms, check it out here.
*This is my interpurtation of the map, others map think that it could be more inaccurate...