This won't make any difference to your govt detecting you are using Tor. But Electrum is much easier to use than the standard client as it doesn't need to download the blockchain. If equipment was found and confiscated there would be no way to detect if Electrum was used and if money was owned and how much since there would be no wallet file permanently stored.
i cant quite grasp how this electrum works. how could you store coins without a wallet?
i don't believe you can run Electrum thru TOR either. at least in the MAC version it didnt give me the option.
by running my client directly to only 5 servers i would think that as a huge security risk, as one can monitor those
5 nodes for all tranactions, and their associated IPs.
i think i will just stick to the classic client and use TOR.