Yahoo news - political updates

[counterstrikedude]

not sure if you guys have heard of this, but yahoo has an excellent feature about today's election. it scopes out the popular vote and electoral vote and updates every 5 minutes.

check it out!

http://news.yahoo.com/election/2008/dashboard

looks like mccain is ahead 52/47! w00t!!

 

[Craig234]

Something weird about the site - while it shows Vermont for Obama (pop ~600K+) 3 electoral votes, and Kentucky for McCain (pop 4M+) 8 electoral votes, it shows the popular vote as almost the same for the two states, each giving between 450K and 500K. That doesn't make sense.

 

[counterstrikedude]

Originally posted by: Craig234
Something weird about the site - while it shows Vermont for Obama (pop ~600K+) 3 electoral votes, and Kentucky for McCain (pop 4M+) 8 electoral votes, it shows the popular vote as almost the same for the two states, each giving between 450K and 500K. That doesn't make sense.

i noticed that too. it's all estimates anyways, but i find the layout interesting. as far as i know the info is being pulled from various polling sites...

i dont know, im not an expert lol.

 

[sactoking]

Originally posted by: Craig234
Something weird about the site - while it shows Vermont for Obama (pop ~600K+) 3 electoral votes, and Kentucky for McCain (pop 4M+) 8 electoral votes, it shows the popular vote as almost the same for the two states, each giving between 450K and 500K. That doesn't make sense.

The numbers are based off of reporting precincts. The called states are based on exit polling. It's like that for all the relevant sites.

 

[pstylesss]

Do what any good political junky does and have EVERY news site reporting results in tabs, also have open different secstate websites to view results.

 

[counterstrikedude]

Originally posted by: sactoking

Originally posted by: Craig234
Something weird about the site - while it shows Vermont for Obama (pop ~600K+) 3 electoral votes, and Kentucky for McCain (pop 4M+) 8 electoral votes, it shows the popular vote as almost the same for the two states, each giving between 450K and 500K. That doesn't make sense.

The numbers are based off of reporting precincts. The called states are based on exit polling. It's like that for all the relevant sites.

oh gotchya. yeah, i never took the time to truly understand the process.

 

[T Dawg]

1 minute ago they had new results for a couple of states.
Good tool, thanks.

Of course, since I know better than to trust polls I will wait for the actual results in the morning. But its still kind of fun to watch and see if all the projections will be true.

OUCH!
76 to 34. Mccain getting stomped in New England, but I think that was expected by all the analysts.

Virginia closed an hour ago, but when I was standing in line this morning I heard some of the volunteers saying it usually takes all night for them to report.
Are they still predicting easy wins for Obama in the Pacific states? If thats true he wont need too many states from the east and midwest to get a solid victory. It may even be decided before the west closes its polls.

I think I'll go over to my local Hooters and watch the results.
That way when someone wins I'll have a convenient hugging and kissing partner.

 

[counterstrikedude]

Originally posted by: T Dawg
1 minute ago they had new results for a couple of states.
Good tool, thanks.

Of course, since I know better than to trust polls I will wait for the actual results in the morning. But its still kind of fun to watch and see if all the projections will be true.

OUCH!
76 to 34. Mccain getting stomped in New England, but I think that was expected by all the analysts.

Virginia closed an hour ago, but when I was standing in line this morning I heard some of the volunteers saying it usually takes all night for them to report.
Are they still predicting easy wins for Obama in the Pacific states? If thats true he wont need too many states from the east and midwest to get a solid victory. It may even be decided before the west closes its polls.

yeah it takes awhile. this is a very exciting day! they always say every election is the "most" historic, but in my eye this one seems to take the pie. so much is at stake lol.