Reply #30: a population cartogram might also work

[Lisa]

This page features one with the sizes of the states adjusted to show population. The same procedure could be used to show numbers of troops deployed, or casualties (or as an earlier poster suggested, those stats adjusted by population density) -- and even shaded to show percentage R or D vote, at the same time.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2006/


An older version of a population cartogram from the Census Bureau:
http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/pdf/912ch1.pdf


This page might have some links to software that can do this (haven't tried them myself so I can't vouch for them):
http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/Cartogram_Central/