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Top 10 Web Tools for Election Season [Lifehacker Top 10]
Lifehacker — ... . 9. Go poll-crazy at FiveThirtyEight.com . [image] Nate Silver is a total data geek, but he knows how to apply it to interesting topics. He proved that with ...

10 Best Online Election Maps
DVICE Atom Feed — This is the most polled presidential election ever. What's the pulse of the nation? Before you cast your ballot on one of a variety of voting machines (find out which ones will be in your state on our Map of Voting Machines in the U.S.), the Internet is here to give you a ringside seat, tracking every ebb and flow of all those opinions. If you'd like to know where those races stand, the info available now on the web is far more extensive and easy to use than even a presidential campaign manager would have had a decade ago. You'll find opinion polls, polls of polls, and interactive ...

Obama Shows Bigger Lead in Polls That Include Cell Phones
textually.org — Political polls that include cell phone users show Obama leading McCain by an average of 10 points, versus just over five points in land-line-only surveys, notes a Sunday survey ...

How the Internet Defeated the McCain Campaign
LIVEdigitally — My wording here is very deliberate, and I want to explain briefly why.  Back in 2000, as a Canadian citizen (with US Green Card), I watched the elections, but didn’t pay all that much attention.  At the time, I hoped for Gore to win, but I really liked John McCain and became forever resentful to GWB for his tactics in the primaries.  Now, as an American citizen (dual), I paid more attention, but it wasn’t until the announcement of Sarah Palin as running mate that I actually became engaged with politics.  As I began my research, both backward into the history of the candidates and ...