It's the thing you've been waiting for! Well, maybe ,em>you haven't. But I have.

Mark Newman, from the Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan has posted the yummy cartograms of the 2008 US Presidential Election results. I could bore you with discussions, but instead, I suggest you go check out his work.

It's awfully nice, as a Texan, not to have Travis County as a remote little island of blue in a sea of red. This time around the central counties of our major metropolitan areas all went blue, too. So here's to you, Harris, Dallas, Bexar, El Paso and Jefferson counties. And three cheers for all you folks in the Valley and out West, too. Especially my dear friends in Maverick County!