Election Maps

^ That map is like a scary nightmare for the Republicans. What is it? The red and blue districts from Tuesdays election warped to represent population. Jump to see more election maps>>

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Noteworthy: Barack Obama’s Presidential Acceptance Speech

Via Torrentfreak, Obama’s speech was a hit on bitTorrent.
Noteworthy quote from the post:
Interest in the speech was not simply limited to the United States. A more detailed look at the geographical location of the people who downloaded the file via BitTorrent, shows that more than half of them come from outside the United States. However, [...]

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Twitter: Election Day Stats

Quick post to point you to  Twitter’s blog, which just posted some stats from yesterday.

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Election 2008 Captured on Flickr

Just a few interesting photos from yesterday on Flickr. Click here to go to some more pics.

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Randi Zuckerberg Posts Some Stats from Yesterday

Randi Zuckerberg, sis to Mark and director of Market Development, in a blog post, gives us some interesting numbers about Facebook users and the election:

I’d like to believe Facebook helped mobilize several people to show up in 2008’s election. 15 million users voted, and I think this is just beginning. With Facebook’s help, we should [...]

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CNET: Ten Election Tweets Worth Remembering

My two favorite are the tweets from The Onion.

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3 in the Morning: President Elect Barack Obama.

Huffington Post offers this breakdown of voters by age:

It’s interesting to note how every category sans the 65+ group went to Obama in Ohio. Once this state was called, it was over.
Here is a screenshot from the winning page BarackObama.com:

Here is McCain’s page with VERY LITTLE change (the developers just included a video of his [...]

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Hot Trends: Ralph Nader

When Ralph Nader announced his candidacy for president many pundits said it would be the most irrelevant campaign, citing that Barack’s candidacy was a more realistic representation of Nader’s values. Meaning if you were going to vote Nader, you were probably voting Barack to make a difference.
Well Google Trends shows us that “Ralph Nader” was [...]

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Bizarre Photo of McCain = Bizarre Photoshop Contest of McCain

I just read on Boing Boing that radio station WFMU’s website had a contest to transform that awkward photo of McCain from the 3rd debate. You know, the one that makes him look like a zombie:

Here is one result:

If you’re ready for the most bizarre pics, click the moshing McCain to jump to the WFMU’s [...]

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Hot Trends: Black Panthers

Today’s hottest trend on Google is the search term “Black Panthers.” Fox News broke a story about two men in Black Panther attire intimidating voters at the University of Pennsylvania. At the speed of light, an internet rumor began circulating today that Black Panthers have been appearing at other polling places to intimidate white voters.
So [...]

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