Besides DU, My Favorite Election Night Resource or Tool Was...

[CorpGovActivist]

... if we all fill in the blank with a recommendation, this may provide the admins of DU with ideas for new features for the next cycle - or, at the very least - ideas for partnership agreements with those tools/resources.

- Dave

P.S. Plus, it will give us all great new bookmarks!

; )

[keopeli]

1. In each case, the best resource was the State Election website, even in MT

The numbers at the state sites were often just moments ahead of broadcasts.

The best part is there was no speculation, just raw data. Anomalies were traceable: when MT Yellowstone county recounted, the MT Scty of State site showed the numbers before any news source reported it. We, at DU, were posting about it, and we found the Yellowstone anomaly at the same time the media reported it.

All the sites I tracked otherwise were outright wrong at least once, had data errors that went uncorrected for extended periods of time.

[CorpGovActivist]

2. FYI...

... I posted all 50 early in the night: http://journals.democraticunderground.com/CorpGovActivist/34

I'm a Gov Geek, and crave the raw data!

; )

Maybe for future election cycles, a pin-up thread with all 50 would be helpful.

- Dave

[Swamp Rat]

5. ... an interactive GIS with dynamic choropleth maps running multivariate

statistical models... maybe I am asking for too much? :D

[lildreamer316]

9. Yes, major kudos to you!

That is a thread to be bookmarked and remembered. Thanks again.

[CorpGovActivist]

11. Well, Now You Know...

... what a pocket-protectored Gov Geek I turn into every other November!

; )

- Dave

[MGD]

3. CNN. They had excellent real time web coverage. nt

[morgan2]

4. bottle of champagne?

[shanine]

6. DU and channel hopping

Thanks Dave!! champagne chilling . . . finally.

[slybacon9]

7. MSNBC, CNN and my pipe

[MrScorpio]

8. C-Span

You can watch it online

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspan_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS

[CorpGovActivist]

12. Thanks, C-SPAN Is Tried and True

[regnaD kciN]

10. TPM Election Central Scoreboard...

...right here.

[CorpGovActivist]

13. Thanks, Bookmarked and Added to the Toolkit n/t

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. Sounds stupid maybe... but the comments of the voters as I worked

at different polls around the area. I know it can't be bookmarked but it was when I heard a man say,"If you run into a Republican tell them to stop using that 'Morals and Values' bullshit" that I knew things might go the right (which is left) way for a change. :D

[CorpGovActivist]

15. Maybe We Could Figure out...

... a field operation of poll workers, texting in to a central location on their breaks?

- Dave

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. I tried to update what I was hearing yesterday but the board was moving

so fast. It would be cool to have a special election poll reaction forum or thread around for next time.

[CorpGovActivist]

17. Awesome!

With that feedback, I bet something could be put in place next go-around.

- Dave

[Holly_Hobby]

18. David.....

....any juicy tidbits on your MSM interview? :)

[CorpGovActivist]

19. See Thread X in...

... my journal.

; )

- Dave