Look at an electoral map such as those shown by CNN, New York Times, or Pollster.com, and it looks like America is a sea of red (for Republican states) with pockets of blue (Democratic). The problem is conventional maps based on landmass do not accurately reflect the Electoral College. Instead they unwittingly perpetuate a kind of geographic media bias. But land mass does not equal votes.

To remedy this, writer Adam Penenberg approached Personal Democracy Forum co-founder Andrew Rasiej and we jointly commissioned web design firm StudioE9 (who donated a portion of their time) to create a map to accurately reflect each state's electoral vote value. We're updating it daily with the current polling consensus from Pollster.com.

It is, in essence, America as it really is.

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