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Wondering who will win the US elections? While many websites are devoting much of their time covering the issues and the candidates, electoral-vote.com offers information on the election's bottom-line: the Electoral College.
How the Electoral College works often confuses people in the US and around the world, but this site breaks it down quickly and easily. Using an interactive map, it shows how each candidate is fairing in any given state and how many votes in the Electoral College that state is worth.
The states are also colour coded - blue for Democrats and red for Republicans, with varying shades to indicate a party's lead in the polls - and the site keeps an ongoing tally of the number of Electoral College votes each candidate is likely to receive if the poll was held on that day.
Is the site accurate? Well, it's only as accurate as the polls it uses, which include Zogby, Rasmussen and numerous others. The site does not conduct its own polls, and it keeps a history of past elections is has covered (2004 and 2006) so you judge its accuracy for yourself. The site also offers a full explanation on how it uses the polling data.
For those looking for more in-depth information, the site has plenty. Move your cursor over any given state and you're given current polling information and past election results.
While the main focus of the site is the presidential election, the site also offers information on US federal elections as a whole, allowing visitors to see the possible outcomes of the US House and Senate races.
It also offers a wide variety of other election-related information. There are no news stories on the site, but users can see articles on subjects such as electronic voting machines and the complete history of the US elections. There are a number of links to other election-related websites, such as political humour sites and a site where users can try to predict the winner of the Electoral College.
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