Here’s a bit of search clairvoyance for my readers: I predict that in, oh, 48 hours or so, Google searches for “electoral map” and “electoral vote” are going to go through the roof. So, I’m going to get in early with links to my favorite online, interactive electoral maps:
- Electoral-vote.com The grand-daddy of electoral maps, this one is not clickable or interactive, but it does seem to be based on serious non-biased poll aggregating. The map and insightful commentary is updated daily.
- Daily kos political scoreboard. I like this electoral map because it’s clickable and very easy to use if you want to build your own electoral vote scenarios (anyone else remember Tim Russert with his whiteboards?). Just click on a state to change it from Republican to Democrat to “Other”, and you can see the change in the overall electoral vote.
- 270towin.com. This is one of the more well-known electoral maps. I like that it provides pre-fab starting points, including the current estimates and 2004 map.
- Washington Post Pick Your President. This was originally a competition to predict the election outcome. It allows you to build your own map (tediously clicking on all the states to do so), and look at other people’s predicted maps. It’s too bad that user comments aren’t allowed – I’d be interested in what the person who made the McCain Landslide map would have said.
- CNN Electoral Vote Calculator. This one is surely the most pleasing visually (props to the person who came up with the color pallette), but the interface makes it a bit hard to use.
One thing I’d like to see is an electoral calculator that takes all of the current polls and then subtracts 7 points from them (to account for a Bradley effect), or whatever number I wish to see. Please post in the comments if you know of any that do this.
Yours,
The Google Pollster
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