Election Maps - Various types

The standard (Red vs Blue) map that you always see (via Newman)

The US map squished around to make the state sizes proportional to the population (still via Newman)

A pointillist take from Nelson. Click to embiggen (a lot!)
 To quote

"a pointillist look at the 2012 election results, which does a fairer job of illustrating where, how many, and how people voted in the election than the more typical full-color generalization."

And my favorite - the map based on political Ad spending  using dollars per Voter as the metric