Lies, Damn Lies, and Cartography

Sully falls in love with Obama's state map of the results in the Presidential primaries. Meanwhile, I'm reminded that cartography is more art than science. While the predominant use of colors used by the media have been dark blue for Obama and light blue for Clinton, not the significantly stronger and lighter shades of blue used by Obama. And the split outcome in Texas? Check the width of the Obama blue compared to Clinton blue.

For my own sake, I thought a county map might be somewhat telling:

By no means my best work, but for a government map, photoshop, and limited time to color in the lines ... it'll do for now. I colored in just the primary states here (any objection to Maine being included and Washington not?) View and judge for yourself.

UPDATE: Oh, and for the record, my color coding is the same as used by CNN. I had the Edwards counties grayed out, but apparently made a snafu in the process of making a JPG of it. My bad. I'll correct eventually as I update with the next primaries.