Um...what? So is the point that cities have a lot of people who tend to vote liberaly? I hadn't heard that--ever.

I have an idea. How about all of those states that have one of these 11 big cities break into two states--the big city (blue) part and the rural (red) part. Then those red voters in those states can have thier voices heard. We can do the same in states where the red voters overwhelmed those blue voters. We'll have to make the flag bigger to fit all the stars.

Also:

Kerry won just eight states (Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont) with balanced votes, and only two of these (Delaware and Hawaii) are outside of New England.

What the hell does that mean? These states, if I know my geography reasonably well, have a much more even population density over their area than, say, oh, IL and WA. So, if we put a more uniform population distribution over state, like say OH, it would have been won for Kerry, based on the model above.

Damn the countryside!

Oh, and thanks to Wally for the link.