The road to the White House is now mapped
The long road to the White House now has a parallel existence in cyberspace.
A new website, the Google Maps Elections ’08 Map Gallery, highlights how people are using technology to follow and analyze the campaign.
A campaign trail map shows where the presumed presidential nominees, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, have been campaigning and where they are headed. In addition, a pair of maps track each candidate's biography across the planet. They allow you to see, for example, the place where McCain was held prisoner during the Vietnam War and the private prep school in Honolulu that Obama attended.
The FundRace map, provided by the Huffington Post blog, uses colors to show the fundraising strength of each candidate and party by geographical region. With blue for Democratic contributions and red for Republican ones, zooming in to the Hollywood area illustrates the entertainment industry's left-leaning tendencies: The map resembles a handful of raspberries spilled onto a deep blue tablecloth.
-- Jim Puzzanghera
