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What's a good website to stay updated on the election tonight?

Asked by monsoon (2528points) November 4th, 2008

I have to work all night tonight, and I want to stay updated on the election results. I was wondering what a good website will be (since I have access to the internet) that would show well-updated results for the election by state (I’m in California).

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purephase's avatar

pollster.com and politico.com are ones I’ve been following for some time. I like them. NPR.org is another.

purephase's avatar

I don’t know if pollster will be updated regularly, however.

monsoon's avatar

Yeah, i just need real time numerical results, mostly, for tonight.

monsoon's avatar

@snoopy, isn’t that link to the results of the 1996 election?

Snoopy's avatar

@monsoon Eh…no.
If you check the 1996, 2000 boxes etc it shows you what the results were for that year.

But the link I gave is a map all gray…..in a holding pattern waiting for results to come in….

dalepetrie's avatar

I plan to check www.cnn.com because of their ability to drill down to the county level.

I hear www.npr.org (or locally www.mpr.org) are supposed to be able to be even more granular.

I will definitely want to see Nate Silver’s liveblog over at www.fivethirtyeight.com

And I noticed today when I went to news.google.com they have a map in the top stories section, and when you click on the election section, the entire right hand side of the page is populated with national and local races.

I’ll probably bring up those 4 browsers and flip between CNN, C-SPAN, MSNBC, FOX News, Headline News and maybe the networks.

lapilofu's avatar

I have to say that the Daily Kos Scoreboard looks pretty phenomenal.

robmandu's avatar

Fox News appears to be offering an interactive, drill-down-to-county-level map.

And Yahoo! explains which states will start reporting returns first as well as some guidance on importance.

monsoon's avatar

will these also show results of propositions? the big prop 8 is one i’m waiting to hear about.

purephase's avatar

pollster is updating regularly, just for clarification.

robmandu's avatar

Update: looks like Daily Kos’ web site is more up-to-date than the Fox News. For example, at 7:45pm EST, the Fox News channel is calling PA for Obama with less than 1% of precincts reporting, yet their website has no numbers at all for PA.

artificialard's avatar

I’ve been looking at the NYtimes.com site that has a cool dashboard you can pop-up…

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