Live 2008 Election Results in Google Maps

Folks at Google have come up with a Google Election Results widget which can be embedded in your website or Blog. Click here to get the widget. For a timetable of expected results check out GoogleMapsMania. Here's what it looks like:

Twitter Voter Reports from across the country on Google Maps

TwitterVoterReport.com is a website where voters

will be able to share their experiences and resources with one another (e.g. “#wait:120″ meaning that the wait time is 120 minutes). These messages will then be aggregated and mapped on Google Maps so that we can “see” voting problems around the country in real-time.

A great team was behind this project and one of them is TWITTERVISION fame: David Troy who just today has been featured in Baltimore Sun which also covers David Troy's role in the Twitter Voter Reports project.

To embed a state-specific map on your site, use the following code:(replacing MI with your 2 letter state code)

<iframe src="http://votereport.us/reports/map?state=MI" frameborder="0" class="stream" width="535" height="500" scrolling="no" ></iframe>

Presidential Journey Maps on TV Station Websites

Going through my website Traffic stats I noticed that there were quite a few TV Stations which have embedded my Obama, Mccain, Biden and Palin Journey of Life maps on Google Maps. Here are some of the TV Stations:

• WILX - TV Lansing, MI
• WRDW.COM - Augusta, GA
• NBC - Madison, Wisconsin
• WOWT (NBC) - Omaha, NE
• KXII Sherman,TX and Ardmore, OK
• KONLNKGIN - Lincoln and Grand Island, NE
• KBTX - TV Brian, TX
• Charlottesvillenewsplex - Charlottesville, VA
• WSAW - Wasau, WI
• WLTV - TV Knoxville, TN
• WNDU - South Bend, IN
• WHSV - Harrsonburg, VA
• ABC - Winchester, VA
• WTAP - Parkersburg, WV

Obama, Mccain, Biden and Palin Journey Maps - Mapplets and Gadgets

A reminder that now you can view Obama, McCain, Biden and Palin Journey Maps as a Google Gadget or a Google Maps Mapplet.

Here are the links: (Note: To stop the autoplay feature click on either the forward or back arrows)

Gadgets for your website:

Barack Obama's Journey

John McCain's Journey

Joe Biden's Journey

Sarah Palin's Journey

Google Mapplets (view it at maps.google.com)

Barack Obama

John McCain

Joe Biden

Sarah Palin

Find your voting location on Google Maps

Google has put up a page where you can find your voting location on Google Maps. In addition there are links on the page which provide you info on

• How to register to vote
• Get an absentee ballot
• Election website for your location

For example if your address is 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington D.C., this is what the map shows:

Google's Election Tools for Classroom

Google has put together a "Election Tools for Educators" page for classroom teachers to engage students in exploring the candidates and issues before they cast their votes in the National Student/Parent Mock Election which is set to take place on October 30th, 2008.

Tools for Classroom page also includes 4 of my "Journey of Life" Maps (Obama, Mccain, Biden, Palin)

Election '08 Twitter Chatter

Did you watch Saturday Night Live? It was hilarious. Tina Fey looks so much like Sarah Palin. Last I checked on Twitter there were lot of folks talking about SNL.

Check out who and from where folks are talking about Sarah Palin and Lipsticks and Saturday Night Live and other Presidential Candidates in this Mashup of Google Maps + Twitter + YouTube Videos.

Who is Sarah Palin?

Sarah Palin the governor of Alaska has been picked by John McCain to be his Vice Presidential running mate. But who is Sarah Palin?

Here's a look at Sarah Palin's life on Google Maps (source Wikipedia) from her birth place in Sand Point, Idaho to Dick Cheney's House at Number One Observatory Circle, Washington D.C. (maybe!!).

LA Times: Mapping the road to the White House, Google-style

Los Angeles Times in their Business Section (07/01/2008) writes about Google's Election 08 Gallery in a article titled "Mapping the road to the White House Google-Style". The article displays a snapshot from my John McCain's Journey of Life Google Maps Mashup. Additionally the article states that

Maps can add a whole new layer of understanding to the race and the people running it. A pair of maps tracks each candidate's life across the planet, allowing you to see, for example, the location where McCain was held as a prisoner during the Vietnam War (pictured above) and the private prep school in Honolulu that Obama attended.

This is quite an honor for me. (Thanks to Keir Clarke at Google Maps Mania Blog for alerting me on the LA Times article).

Embarassing Night for Pundits and Pollsters

The Pundits and Pollsters had predicted a easy victory for Barack Obama in New Hampshire and almost written off Hillary Clinton. They were wrong "BIG TIME". Now Hillary Clinton is the "Comeback Kid", the name New Hampshire gave her husband 16 years ago. What happened? According to Dick Morris, Fox News Contributor

"She pretended to cry, the women felt sorry for her and they went for her". "She showed a capacity to take a punch that was extraordinary," Morris said. "I have never seen a comeback like this in my entire political life. … And I gotta say that this means, I think, that she’s going to win" the Democratic nomination.

Here's a Google Maps View of New Hampshire Primary Results by county (via).

Google Mapping US Presidential Candidates Event Trails

Google has created a "Elections 2008" gadget to help

people stay up-to-date on the latest campaign maps, news, videos and blog posts from the election trail. Add the gadget to your iGoogle homepage to follow the race. You can choose the candidates you want to follow, or keep tabs on them all.

Check out the maps tab of this gadget to view candidate event trails. Try searching for your own city or state to see which presidential hopeful will be campaigning near you!

(via) (also check out my 2008 US Presidential Candidates mashup).