That meaningless map

I know you've seen it.

Back in the bad old days just prior to the Florida debacle of 2000, my boss posted one of those red/blue maps outside his office door, to assure us all that the Repuglicons were ...what? Illusionists? Sheesh. What a moron, I always thought. There was more red on the map, so that meant more Repuglicon votes. As though land mass voted. He was so proud of that idiotic map.

Maybe a 6-year-old who thinks a nickel is worth more than a dime because it's bigger would have been fooled into thinking that the larger land mass could be correlated to votes, and not the numbers of voters. But how could it escape a grown man with a college education that if 10 red states with 10 voters each voted Repuglicon while only 2 blue states with 51 voters each voted Demwit (for example), the fewer Demwit states would still win?

But that map seemed to crop up everywhere - and I know it wasn't made for 6-year-olds. How stupid are we?

Have a closer look at the red/blue map.

....oh, do what you want....you will anyway.