[CitizensTruth] Ditch the TV and get online for REAL election-night coverage, Starting with Brad Friedman of Bradblog.com...

[Daniel Stafford]

/*Ditch the TV and get online for REAL election-night coverage, Starting 
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  I'm Ready to Declare a Winner in the 2008 Race
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Okay, all the arguments have been made. And I am ready to declare a 
winner in the 2008 race.

The Internet. (The other winner will have to wait until Tuesday night).

 From the way campaigns connect to supporters, to the way those 
campaigns are covered, to the way voters decide who to vote for, 2008 
has delivered the first truly 21st century presidential race. And 
election night promises to fortify the Internet's victory.

While discussing with a friend an election night viewing party he's 
throwing, he announced there would be "televisions all over the place." 
"That's great," I said, "but just make sure the WiFi is working." 
Because this year, the laptop -- along with the array of 
Internet-connected mobile devices -- has replaced the television as the 
must-have election night device.

Of course, we want the TVs, too -- but mostly just to see how the 
results are covered, what the anchors are saying, when they call it, how 
the winners and losers react, and how crazy John King gets with his 
Magic Wall.

For real time results, however, the Internet will be the go-to 
destination. A host of websites, starting with HuffPost, will make it 
possible for you to choose how and when you want to follow the results 
-- whether you want to follow them state-by-state and county-by-county 
or jump between the presidential race and hotly contested Senate and 
House showdowns. And do it interactively.

And if you are a real election junkie, you can log on to each secretary 
of state's page and get the latest numbers even faster.

The clichéd putdown about the blogosphere is that it's just people 
spouting opinions, but this election has shown it's also about expertise 
and information -- collated, graphed, spread-sheeted, distilled, and 
cross-tabbed. Witness the rush to relevance of fivethirtyeight.com 
<http://www.fivethirtyeight.com> and its wonky numbers guy Nate Silver. 
Lately, it's been hard to go even a couple of hours without hearing 
someone say, "Nate Silver just wrote about that poll and here's what he 
says is wrong with it..."

As the countdown to Election Day continues, here is a rough guide to 
some of the Internet's best offerings to help you fill the anxious, 
final hours of the campaign -- and some places to make sure you check 
out (or bookmark, if you are Old School like me) as the returns start to 
roll in on Tuesday.

First and foremost (and completely objectively, of course), I hope 
you'll check out HuffPost's exhaustive Election Night coverage. We'll be 
featuring up-to-the-minute stories, stats, and video, along with a host 
of interactive maps, electoral widgets, and fun (and surprisingly 
accurate 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-thomson/the-most-accurate-electio_b_140181.html>) 
tools like the Intrade and Betfair election predictors. We'll also bring 
you intensive reporting and on-the-scene coverage of the vote, including 
any voting irregularities, from the battleground states by our OffTheBus 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/off-the-bus/>' network of citizen 
journalists. And, of course, we'll have our usual top-flight commentary 
-- including a host of top bloggers who will be liveblogging the returns 
as they come in. Plus, a number of our international bloggers will be 
weighing in from various spots across the globe, letting us know the 
local reaction to the results. All in all, we're aiming to be a 
one-stop-shop for all things Election Night. (For those of you who will 
be out and about on Tuesday, be sure to check out our new HuffPost 
Mobile site -- http://m.huffpost.com -- which we launched today, in time 
for on-the-go election day coverage.)

Here are some other don't-miss sites:

For raw polling data, check out FiveThirtyEight 
<http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/>, Pollster.com 
<http://www.pollster.com/>, Real Clear Politics 
<http://realclearpolitics.com/>, Talking Points Memo's Election Central 
<http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/>. Here's our final 
poll compilation page 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/02/latest-presidential-polls_n_140177.html>.

YouTube has put all its election video onto one page 
<http://www.youtube.com/youchoose>, and has begun a project called Video 
Your Vote <http://www.youtube.com/videoyourvote>, in which you can video 
yourself voting and upload it.

Google has some incredible election map pages 
<http://maps.google.com/help/maps/elections/#utm_campaign=en&utm_medium=ha&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-&utm_term=mapsgallery>. 
For instance, here's a great page of historical election maps 
<http://maps.google.com/help/maps/elections/#historical_result>. Their 
election homepage is here <http://www.google.com/2008election/>, use it 
to find your polling place, get directions, and read what each candidate 
says about the issues.

/Congressional Quarterly/ also has a great page of historical maps here 
<http://innovation.cq.com/prezMap08/?tab=3s>.

/The American Prospect/'s election night guide can be found here 
<http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_american_prospect_2008_election_night_guide>.

DailyKos <http://scoreboard.dailykos.com/map/> and TPM 
<http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/> both have fun and very functional 
interactive maps.

TechPresident.com's numerous tools and resources -- including The Real 
Electoral Map <http://www.techpresident.com/ecmap> and the Twitter Vote 
Report <http://twittervotereport.com/> -- can be found here 
<http://www.techpresident.com/>.

For poll closing times, here are pages by CNN 
<http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/poll.closing/>, 270 To Win 
<http://www.270towin.com/closing.php>, Swing State Project 
<http://swingstateproject.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3641>, and The Green 
Papers <http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G08/closing.phtml?format=ec>.

Want to do your own interactive electoral vote map? There are several to 
choose from: PBS 
<http://www.pbs.org/vote2008/moreinfo/electionmaps.html>, Yahoo 
<http://news.yahoo.com/election/2008/dashboard>, /CQ 
<http://innovation.cq.com/prezMap08/?tab=2>/, CNN 
<http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/calculator/>, /New York Times 
<http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/president/whos-ahead/key-states/map.html>/, 
/Washington Post 
<http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008/pick-your-president/>/.

So wherever you will be spending Election Night -- at a party, a 
campaign event, a bar, or hunkered down on your couch biting your finger 
nails -- be sure to have your computer, your BlackBerry, or your iPhone 
nearby, and be a part of what promises to be a historic night -- both 
for the country and for the Internet.

See you online Tuesday night -- and, I hope, every waking moment 
in-between. I, for one, despite my paeans to sleep 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/less-sex-more-fat-why-y_b_26551.html> 
plan to postpone sleeping from now until after the last race is called.

/*Read more Election Day Liveblogs, Reaction and Analysis from HuffPost 
Bloggers*/ 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/04/election-day-liveblogs-re_n_140720.html>

/If you are in the San Francisco area, I will be speaking at the Web 2.0 
Summit <http://en.oreilly.com/web2008/public/schedule/speaker/25785> on 
Friday, November 7th. /

/*And be sure and check out the HuffPost Election Forecast Contest 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/sunday-roundup_b_140031.html>*/



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