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:
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