Here is a county-by-county map with the counties Obama carried in blue and those Romney carried in red:

2012 Election by County

2012 Presidential Election Results by County

Source - Mark Newman, Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan

Here is the same map showing a mixture of Red and Blue to indicate the percentage of votes for each candidate in each county.

2012 Presidential Election Map (Shaded by percent)

2012 Presidential Election Map (Shaded by percent)

Source - Mark Newman, Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan

Here is a similar map that adds a third dimension to show the population of each county:

2012 Presidential Election Results showing County and Population

2012 Presidential Election Results showing County and Population

Source - Robert J. Vanderbei, Professor, Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton Univ.

 

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