Doyce has found CNN’s Election Results page, which provides a nice snapshot of all the results as they (are yet to) trickle in. It’s got some nice side-bar customization you can do for local race tracking, too.
MSNBC‘s site isn’t nearly as nice (though it has a good “when projections are likely” map).
ABC requires registration, buried several screens in. Screw ’em.
CBS has a fairly bare-bones, but elegantly-presented site. If you find the CNN one a bit busy, try here.
(As an aside — is anyone really interested in the national governors races? I mean, about the gubernatorial contest in my state, if we were having one, sure. But I really don’t care who wins in Wisconsin, or what party they’re in.)
I wasn’t able to find a one-page-fits-all summary at Fox. Shrug.
Any other good sites to monitor?
By the by, this Rocky article indicates, alas, that Colorado’s vote will liable to go off into tomorrow and beyond, due to absentee ballots, provisional ballots, overseas ballots, and high turnout. I suspect that, just as “chads” were the big bugaboo in 2000, the provisional ballot thang will be this year (along with voting machine technology glitches).
UPDATE (3:31p): Duh. The CNN site has a very convenient link to an equally nice map of poll closings. So I see no reason to leave anyone else refreshing on my desktop.
By the way, the Net seems pretty logy today. I’ve seen reports of DOS attacks on some sites, and reports of some hosting companies being swamped by bandwidth demands. I know that I’ve had a lot of sites time out on me this afternoon. If this page seems to vanish for a while … try back later.
Here’s a useful breakdown of the basic timeline for election results.
Hmm… I shouldn’t have said “useful” — I should have said “interesting” — in an “I’m trying to be a pro-Bush Nostradamus” way.
Wikipedia has a one page summary here.
Actually, just closed that window. I’ve seen so much optimistic and pessimistic bits from both candidate’s camps, I’m avoiding the prognosticating and just watching the results as they come in.
Okay, well, hell, here’s my prediction: Bush wins, around 285 EV, about 50.5% PV, but we won’t know for sure for several days or more as various challenges in any number of states run their way through the courts. Bleah.
The BBC has a nice U.S. Election site as well http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/americas/04/vote_usa/map/html/default.stm “target=”register only”>Here.
Early exit polls via Reuters
———AZ–CO–LA–PA–OH–FL–MI–NM–MN–WI–IA–NH
Kerry—-45–48–42–60–52–51–51–50–58–52–49–57
Bush—–55–51–57–40–48–48–47–48–40–43–49–41
Those polls were 59/41 women, were concentrated in urban areas, and don’t count early and absentee votes. The 4:00 Eastern numbers were:
Kerry-Bush
FL 50-49
OH 50-49
PA 54-45
WI 51-46
MI 51-47
NH Kerry +3
NV 48-50
CO 46-53
NC 49-51
MO Bush +11
The 2000 exit points showed Bush down by 4 in AZ, he won by 6 and down by 3 in Florida. And, don’t forget the Strickland/Allard faux paus.
The reason why I believe these polls are wrong is because the late rush is heavily male and will skew towards Bush. We shall see in a few hours.
Another internal of the exit polls. Dems only have a 1% party I.D. advantage down from 4%.
That should be down from 4% in 2000.
The NPR graphics are similar to the BBC one. I think I still like CNN’s best.
The Rocky’s “Ballot Builder” is now tracking percentages, so I can see how my canddiates/issues turned out. Sweet.
I somehow managed to miss the C-SPAN map. Nice.