Yeah, except that for all the ever-more convuluted mathematical operations that are applied, the results still only show that the US is split roughly 50-50 Republican-Democrat, which we already knew. It's very pretty and satisfying in a mathematical/graphical sense, but it doesn't change anything or show anything new. Cartograms are the 'they stole the election' of 2004 - Democrats need to get over the numbers and start winning voters over.