Purple's majesty

I've seen purple-shaded maps of the recent election, where areas are shaded according to percentage Rep/Dem, rather than strictly red/blue--specifically here, and PZ Myers discussion of them.

But I haven't seen one colored by state, which, granted, isn't as neatly nuanced as the one colored by county, or as impressive of the population-scaled version, but I figured it would be easy enough to calculate RGB values and do 50 fill areas in Photoshop, so here's my version:


The maximum difference between candidates was in Hawaii, so that's set to pure blue, and the rest are scaled accordingly. (DC was overwhelmingly for Obama, to the tune of 93%, so I ignored it so as not to squash the scale.)

Also, just because I keep crying every time I hear it, here's will.i.am et al.'s video "Yes We Can,"



which is also the new background music for palinaspresident.us, which movingly has the Oval Office restored to its former dignity. And now I'm crying again; this is ridiculous.

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