Internet gears up for the biggest Election party in history
By Andrew Redfern @ 4th November 2008 6:25 pm
It’s fair to say that this presidential election has broke new ground in terms of it’s online content. Today, as Americans got to the polls, people will be glued to their monitors like never before.
Way back when the compaigns for the party nominations began all aspects of the internet from YouTube & Twitter right through to large scale Google adWords campaigns have all been used to embrace the new online generation. Independant companies such as Facebook have seen this election as the perfect way for new media to get through to a difficult to reach sector of the electorate and wage war against voter apathy.
Google have weighed in with a pretty impressive Google Map that is crruently counting down towards results time. It features a retrospective of the campaign trail, historical results as well as a full results suite for the Presidency, The Senate and The House of Representatives. Google Maps 2008 Elections Gallery.
Yahoo is offering a similarly impressive political dashboard featuring interactive moment by moment coverage. MSN has a similar offering including a live Election Q&A service.
Whether Barrack Obama or John McCain wins one thing is for certain…every single move will be watched in minute details via the web.
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