Awesome Election Day links

Published 11:32 am Tuesday, November 4, 2008

First of all, keep your browser on the Albert Lea Tribune for a results map and result figures for national and local races.

https://www.albertleatribune.com/news/election2008/

Then you can open tabs for the following sites:

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The New York Times has a neat interactive map of the United States and other cool stuff.

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/politics/

Wikipedia has a list of newspaper endorsements from all across the United States. Note that the Albert Lea Tribune is included.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_endorsements_in_the_United_States_presidential_election,_2008

Have you played USA Today’s Candidates Match Game II? This is fun.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/candidate-match-game.htm

This next site could win the award for coolest. It is from iDashboards, and it is interactive at its best. Hover over a state to see the numbers.

http://live.idashboards.com/president2008/?guestuser=pres2008

CNN provides a hotline and a map of voting problems occurring today.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/voter.hotline/

People are atwitter over Twitter Election.

http://election.twitter.com/

If you need a laugh, Comedy Central has humor. It is Indecision 2008.

http://www.indecision2008.com/

Saturday Night Live has had some its highest ratings in years. If you missed the skits, you can watch them online.

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/

Let’s not forget The Onion:

http://www.theonion.com/content/whitehousewar

Here is an interesting Q&A from the Federal Election Commission.

http://www.fec.gov/info/election_day_links.shtml

Find out where to vote on Google Maps.

http://maps.google.com/maps/mpl?moduleurl=http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/mapplets/elections/2008/us-voter-info/us-voter-info.xml

The National Association of Secretaries of State has a site dedicated to helping people find their polling locations.

http://www.canivote.org/

Smart surfers of the World Wide Web know their way around the Minnesota Secretary of State’s Office site.

http://www.sos.state.mn.us/home/index.asp?page=4

Find your way to the elections page of the Freeborn County Auditor-Treasurer’s Office.

http://www.co.freeborn.mn.us/auditor/elections/default.aspx

This blogger describes a fictional chess game between Barack Obama and John McCain.

http://jennifershahade.com/site/2008/09/23/obama-plays-chess-against-mccain/

If you like free online games, you can enjoy having McCain and Obama play paintball.

http://www.games-for-free.net/games/Obama_Mccain.html

About Tim Engstrom

Tim Engstrom is the editor of the Albert Lea Tribune. He resides in Albert Lea with his wife, two sons and dog.

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