For eager consumers of US Presidential election news, the climax is approaching: on Tuesday night, we’ll get to watch the results of the epic clash between John McCain and Barack Obama. Which websites will Lib Dem Voice readers consider invaluable to following the dynamics of the election as it unfolds, or tracking House and Senate races, as we watch the TV coverage?
Here are my three suggestions:
1. Real Clear Politics is a hive of polls and punditry, with links to the most important stories.
2. Politics Home, the British imitator of Real Clear Politics, has good US coverage of its own.
3. And, of course, Lib Dem Voice, where we have a busy schedule of coverage planned all through the night, as the results come in. A series of posts will point out which states to watch hour-by-hour, as polls close in different parts of the United States, and there’ll be the commentary and open discussion by LDV readers you’d expect.
Feel free to post your suggestions below!
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I’ll have BBC News/Sky News on the freeview box, and a number of websites tabbed thanks to the wonder of IE7. Probably Wiki too, just so I can update the results myself 🙂
So, so obvious – as usual politicalbetting.com will have all the latest before anywhere else.
While results coming in:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/obama-sign-cctv-1
Brilliant irreverent Obamaites – set up originally for a Dem family to have visitors to check their Obama signs were not being stolen – now the chatroom is inundated by interesting dems and has become a bit of an institution!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com – the Daily Mail for Liberals
http://www.cnn.com/elections – county result updates as they come in
http://www.dailykos.com – similar
Post-results
http://www.huffingtonpost.com
http://www.theleftcoaster.com
http://www.crooksandliars.com
http://www.dailykos.com
FiveThirtyEight.com – probably the best political statistical analysis website in the game right now.
Pollster.com – did a very good set of posts on Super Tuesday interpreting the exit polls, hopefully will be more of the same tomorrow.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com
And http://www.foxnews.com should be fairly amusing as the scale of Obama’s victory becomes clear.
personally i’m a big fivethirtyeight.com fan
Daily Kos has a point-n-click map with results down to county level from 2004.
If you have Google Earth you can get a map which has some county results and demographics
For covereage I don’t think you can beat CNN both on TV (Sky 506) and on the web.
http://www.270towin.com has the most no-nonsense electoral map calculator I’ve found
This page on CNN will give you a shortcut to the states/races you select as having the most interest in.
http://edition.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/your.races/index.html
If you want some indication of the marginal house races on the east coast some are picked out at http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2008/House/house_races.html
RCP has an in-house GOP bias, as 538 makes clear. The latter is indeed far superior.