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This weekend Barack Obama’s campaign broke a campaign finance record raising a record 150 million dollars in September. Following up on that theme, this post will set aim on examining CNN’s Fundraising digital map and the Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) Fundraising map. The primary goal of this post will be to compare and look at the available content and the means of displaying the same data differently as well as focusing on each maps supporting content. Continue Reading »

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The last presidential debate was just a few days ago for which CNN has released an interesting and simplistic video map of the view points of other countries regarding the U.S. presidential election. Along with this offering I will examine the Economist web site which poses the question “how would the world vote in the presidential election”. Continue Reading »

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The third and final presidential debate is now over and there is roughly 20 days to go till election day. I have sat glued to CNN during every one of these debates as I have enjoyed the pundits’ opinions and views. Interestingly CNN went from having a few pundits in discussion to having a horde of pundits, but I guess the more opinions the better. My favorite feature so far has been John King’s “Magic Map” coverage of the election poll results and interpretation. Continue Reading »

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So far this series has focused on a variety of themed election maps, from the standard interactive electoral distribution map to specialized subjects such as party based book buying habits and battleground state issue break down distribution maps. In today’s posting I plan on focusing on an entire web site and not just detailed election polling number maps. The site I will be focusing on today is definitely a treat for statistics lovers. But, even if statistics instill fear into your heart, you definitely should check out this site because I believe it is probably the most complex and most complete election data and information source on the internet. Continue Reading »

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In this presidential election season the media has focused heavily on “Key Battleground States”, or must win states. Allot of this focus in the media has targeted the all important “swing vote” as the time to election nears. Recent polls still indicate that swing voters play heavily into the outcome of this election. What exactly are the “Battleground States” and what exactly are the key issues in those states and where are they geographically? Continue Reading »

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In the first post of this series I presented a gallery of Google offered maps, including the standard red\blue poll map. In this installment I want to lighten things up a little bit. As stated in my first post, the principle goal of this series is to look at various online map offerings related to the 2008 elections. As I have already done a standard poll based electoral map, I figured I would highlight something a little different in this post, the Amazon.com Political Book Buying Map. Continue Reading »

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