Tonight's news once again reported the nationwide poll results for Obama vs. McCain, which is the most useless thing you could possibly track. What are these people thinking? The only thing that matters on election day is state by state.
So I googled "obama mccain poll results" and found what seems to be by far the most useful site I've seen, named, appropriately enough, Real Clear Politics.
Intelligently, their navigation list on the left shows a list of the battleground states. Clicking one produces a list of recent poll results, like many sites. But unlike many, it also shows the blue/red trend. Here's my state. The red-blue chart shows the individual candidates' numbers; the graph below that shows the point spread as it waxes and wanes. (Click image to enlarge.)
The site also has a "RealClearPolitics Map" which shows the current status of all the states that are solidly in or leaning toward one camp, or tossup. Remember, judgments about what's a tossup and what's not are highly subjective.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Best election status tracking site
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Dave,
there is another site, which provides, I think, more data:
http://fivethirtyeight.com. It is one of my daily favorites. I wish we could track healthcare expenditures in the same clear way.
Thanks, Gilles!
(For those who don't know, "kosherfrog" is the amazing Gilles Frydman, the French Jew (kosher frog) who lives in New York. He is the creator of ACOR, the network of cancer communities that was so important in my disease experience last year. He's also one of the senior members of the e-Patient Scholars Working Group, for good reason - he's one of the original pioneers of what came to be called e-patients, which is why he was singled out by CNN in July and last week.)
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