Special Back-From-Vacation-Focus-on-Primaries Edition:
2008 Presidential Primaries and Caucuses (PBS) - Great map.
Fast Fact: South Dakota votes last on June 3rd (yet those in the southeastern part of the state have been seeing Iowa-aimed ads for months.

Collapse of the Empire State (The Electoral Map) - Schadenfreude?
California now far larger, NY still more obnoxious

Vote Your Conscience, If You Can (WashPost) - From the department of possibly misapplied science
I'm sure these are interesting articles on network dynamics, but I'm already sick of the media's crutch of "all chance anyway" stories that are always sprinkled in with the obsessive wardrobe watching.