I said this wouldn’t be a political site, and no political opinions are put forth in this post. On the other hand, I have been having a blast tracking the mathematics in this election, and there are two cool sites that I’ve been enjoying.
http://www.evstrength.blogspot.com/ tracks the statewide polls and shows the path this election has taken. It shows a state-by-state breakdown of which candidates can expect to get which electoral votes, and interestingly, allows you to compare the polls to the same date in 2004.
Also interesting is http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/, which uses about 10,000 simulated elections each day to project a winner. I’d be really interested to learn more about their computer model for the election.
Living in a state that is polling so far for McCain that neither candidate has been here in weeks (we don’t even get that many TV ads), the statistics are much more interesting than the actual campaign… it makes me miss living in a swing state.