Sunday, November 2, 2008

The Past and the Future

Here's something I just came across: a visual history of presidential election results since the very first one. It shows you the map of the U.S. with the states colored according to each election result. I'm no historian but something like this where you see dramatic shifts where the country is all red states or all blue states makes you wonder what must have happened (Civil War, WWII, assassination of Kennedy, Vietnam War, and so on). I hope they update this on November 5 to put this year's elections in perspective.

And for anyone not sick of the polls yet (it's an addiction from which we'll all have to withdraw cold-turkey on November 5), here's a poll of polls where they average out a number of different polls:

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