To me, it's a fantastic use of Flash animation.
There's a little slider to allow you to scan through other U.S. presidential election maps going back to 1992 -- the first victory by Bill Clinton.
You can zoom into a given state to see county-level results.
Not enough for you?
You can see "bubbles" at the county level in another view to see how badly one party is whupping the other's ass. In comparing the candidates' home country results, John McCain took almost 55 per cent of the vote in Maricopa County, Ariz. for a 12-point lead; Barack Obama took 76 per cent in Cook County, Ill. for a 53-point lead. Needless to say, the blue bubble of Cook County was much larger than the red bubble for Maricopa County.
The voting shifts option lets you see at a glance how the Republicans actually picked up strength in the mid-South, from Arkansas to West Virginia.
So far as I can see, this is way more sophisticated than anything attempted by Canadian news organizations in the Oct. 14 federal election, but such are the economies of scale.
