Paul Crowley

I find this much clearer and more intuitive - thanks! Now that it's clearer which states are called for Obama, I think the red for Virginia is also less troubling, although of course it's difficult to judge whether that's just because I read the comments on the previous post. Just one small FYI: in Google Chrome, the red background for McCain's called states is almost indistinguishable from the black background above it, at least for me. It may be my eyes doing something weird that other people's don't do, but at first glance I read this as no states being called for McCain. When I realised that couldn't be right and looked again, I saw it correctly, but when I glanced back at the chart while typing this comment, it started looking as if every state from Texas down was called for McCain - possibly some sort of optical illusion linked to the size of the red area for Texas? Obviously you can't change that, but there may be a better shade of red, or even pink, that would avoid the problem, assuming it's Not Just Me. The blue for Obama's called states is lovely and clear :-)