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There are going to be a ton of places you can find election results, for your local races try the local news sites. For the Federal races here are a few good places to check for news:
- NPR – Nice interactive map and list that includes poll closing times
- CNN – CNN’s Election Results Page
- Pollster.com – Election tracking map and all the latest polls leading up to today
- BBC – Get international coverage of our election from the BBC
- Indecision 2008 - Comedy Central’s election coverage
- The Onion – The Onion provides live election coverage
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From State Demographics, Delegate Counts, and Poll Closing Times – to Polling Results, Exit Polls, and Voting Results, these are the sites you need for great info about Super Tuesday:
- State Demographics including Delegate Counts – See the Wall Street Journal
- Poling results leading up the Primaries – See Pollster.com
- State by State Exit Polls and Results – See CNN’s Election Page
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To see county results check out scvotes.org‘s county by county map. That should give you a good idea about how good a job Obama did in the state. The only counties that didn’t go for Obama are Horry County for Hillary, home of Myrtle Beach and plenty of retired New Yorkers and Oconee County for John Edwards, the county where he was born. There were many factors that led to Obama’s victory and I’m sure you’ve heard them all by now, but it’s obvious that the Democrats of SC were impressed and this wasn’t just about race or a general dislike of Hillary Clinton. I’m sure the results had the pollsters breathing a sigh of relief that they were correct, but no one predicted Obama with greater than 50% of the vote.
- See the polls at pollster.com
- See the amazing turnout numbers with one county having more than 40% of registered voters turnout
- See the County vote counts
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The Democratic debate in Myrtle Beach tonight was quite the battle. The candidates pulled the typical debate tricks with attacks on each other and twisting the questions to their talking points. All three candidates were in good form, speaking well and able to interact with each other in a manner that switched between forceful and playful. For all their efforts I doubt we’ll see much change in the way South Carolina voters are thinking.
If anyone gained from the exchanges, I think it would be John Edwards. If nothing else he was the most successful in avoiding the most personal attacks and in directing the discussion onto topics that he feels he has the strongest positions on while prodding on the nit-picking attacks Clinton and Obama directed towards each other’s campaigning style.
Obama has the lead according to polls since his campaign with Oprah in the state and I doubt anything in the debate will change that.
One interesting thing that came up was the belief that the candidates thought John McCain will lock up the Republican nomination, or at least wanted to use that possibility as a way to promote electability.
All things considered I think this was a win for Edwards, not one that will matter in this election, but maybe one that will help him in whatever it is that he’s using this election as a setup for.
Snow and some human error in setting up voting machines could make the results in today’s South Carolina Republican Primary a little more dramatic than expected. If the race is close then we’ll have to wait on the paper ballots to be counted.
WYFF a SC TV station has the live results posted, and with 75% of the votes counted John McCain has a 6% lead over Mike Huckabee. UPDATE – McCain called as Winner
If results since 1980 hold true then the winner of South Carolina will go onto take the election. It looks like McCain will take SC, but it’s hard to say if the trend will hold true. With Thompson likely to drop out of the race this weekend, many of his voters will probably turn to the more conservative Huckabee which might cancel out any momentum that McCain could take out of the SC.
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Update:
- See the voter turnout results.
- See statewide results with county and district breakdowns.
- See the a map overlay of the results by county or district.
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Presidential Candidate Selectors to help you match you views on the major issues with the candidates. This is a followup to my first post on Presidential Candidate matching quizzes.
- Minnesota Public Radio’s Select a Candidate 2008: This is one of the most well designed of the quizzes. In addition to taking the quiz you can see the cumulative results from other quiz takers and get a little more information on the candidates views and how the are matched up to the quiz question answers.
- deph.net quiz based on 2decide.com table: Interesting because you can goto 2decide.com’s page and see the chart that the quiz was made from and the scoring calculation is listed along with the code that makes up the site.
- Internet Straw Poll: Simple but a little unsatisfying, go through the questions and get a suggested candidate, but only one and no more detail.
- USA Today’s Candidate Match Game: OK I have to admit this is one of my favorites, not due to accuracy or better coverage, but because I liked watch the bobble-head likenesses of the candidates move as I answered questions… I’m easily entertained. Make sure to use the sliders to “weigh” the issues to get your most accurate result.
Here are a five sites that will help you see what presidential candidates align with your views. These are interesting but if you’re moderate like me your best matched candidate will change between the different sites. I had a few that almost always went to the bottom of the pack, but other than that the results were pretty mixed. This was a good exercise for me since we’re getting to the point where I’ll need to start paying attention. I’ve already been taking a look at the polls over at Polled.info but they don’t really say much about the issues. Anyway here you go, some are better than others and I think the more you lean to the left or right, the more standardized your results will be:2008 SelectSmart.com Presidential Candidate Selector – I couldn’t get the slider to go back to the middle after I had moved it, so fair warning.
WQAD Select a Candidate – This poll seems to have Hillary and Obama as having exactly the same views, which doesn’t seem very accurate.
Candidate Quiz – This quiz has leading questions and expects black and white answers.
Candidate Calculator – Simple radio buttons and drop down list with a decent selection of issues.
Vote Match Quiz – Also allows you to compare your views with previous senate races.
I suggest you take them all and use the results as a starting point for further research.
UPDATE: There’s a followup with more tools to help you match your candidate.