I want to generate blank county-outline maps of various states & color or shade in the counties according to how they voted in an election. There could be 5 or 6 candidates, each needing his own color or shade.

Questions:
1) Is Map Point the best program to do this?

2)I gather from reading the topics here that you can't eliminate city names (but can print them in really tiny fonts). Does the same apply to county names, or can you eliminate them completely?

3) Are there any other map features you can't eliminate--in short, is it possible to have a blank county-boundary-only map of, say, Texas?

4) If Map Point can't do this really simple thing, is there some program out there that can--that doesn't cost the earth?