Google is providing 2008 Election Results for the U.S. Presidential Election at both the national and state levels.
2008 Election Results
Coverage of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate election results are also available at the state level.
2008 State Election Results
For Live Election results as the become available, visit Google’s 2008 U.S. Election Results page.
MapMash has produced a pretty cool interactive US Electoral College map in Google Maps.
The MapMash map has eight different 2008 electoral college polls preloaded for comparing poll results from CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, USA Today, Pollster.com, Real Clear Politics, 270toWin.com and Politico.com
MapMash
I don’t know when the polls were conducted but their results vary widely.
US Electoral College Map
Google Maps users can click each state to see how its electoral votes could affect the 2008 election outcome.
Reset the map from the “Submit Your Prediction” drop down box to generate your own personal prediction of the electoral college vote outcome.
Reset
Click twice on a state to switch votes from Obama to McCain or vice versa when to create your own custom electoral college map.
US Electoral College State Map
Overall, MapMash has created another cool use for Google Maps.
With Election Day fast approaching many voters are searching for answers to common voting related questions.
The most popular voting questions are:
Where do I vote?
What are voting hours / poll hours?
What time do the polls open?
Where are voting locations / polling locations?
Where am I registered to vote?
What are voting times?
Many voters are also searching for sample ballots and their local board of elections.
A great nonpartisan resource for finding out where to vote is CanIVote.org
Can I Vote
Voters can search their respective state to find their local polling place.
According to CanIVote.org, “many election offices offer online services that match your address to your local voting site.”
I was able to locate my polling place via a search from via CanIVote.org and my State Election board’s website by providing my last name, birth date and and Zip Code.
Polling Place Locator Search
Voters from every state should be able to find the answers they need about how and where to cast their vote on Election Day from the CanIVote.org website.
After reading Danny Sullivan’s post about his and Mike Blumenthal’s continued frustration with Google’s Local Business Center and its shortcomings, I went to check the status of my recent attempts to further manage my business listing and its details in Google’s Local Business Center.
I was surprised to learn my listing edits were disapproved for reasons which weren’t fully explained other than through a pop up which said: “This listing does not comply with our policy of allowed terms.”
Policy of Allowed Terms
I haven’t yet been able to locate their policy of allowed terms.
Fortunately and because the Google Local Business Center still has room for improvement – my business listing can be found in a Google or Google Maps search for Advanced Marketing Consultants Nichols Hills, OK.
Google Local Business Center Overview
However, so can my competitor’s “listings”.
I was even more surprised to find information other than data directly related to my business inserted into both the Overview and User Content sections of my business listing by a “consultants directory” which effectively submarines my listing – not once but three times – all with the same “information” from the same “consultants directory”.
Marketing Consultants
I am not sure these are the type of search results Google wanted to see occur when they opened up and allowed “user generated content” within Google Maps – yet these types of results are now appearing there.
How long will it take before every business category gets submarined by directories who spam Google Maps with their “Placemarks” on “Untitled Maps” under the auspices of “user content”?
Placemarks Untitled Maps
I don’t know exactly how Google can stop spammers from generating “Placemarks” on “Untitled Maps” which in turn get published under unsuspecting business owner’s business listings.
Surely though since Google created the “User Content” system – they can also fix it.
I just added my Twitter account into my Linkedin account profile after noticing Owen Frager had added it to his “what he is working on” Linkedin updates.
Twitter TimCohn
Pretty cool Owen…
Linkedin TimCohn
I had been meaning for some time to write about the importance of “owning and controlling your brand” whether personal or corporate in the most promising emerging social platforms for both offensive and defensive purposes
Appropriately, I first became acquainted with Owen after having posted on Domain King Rick Schwartz’ blog
Name.com
about how I missed the first offensive opportunity to control “my personal brand” – albeit my not so unique name – on that newfangled social platform called the world wide web way back in 1996.
Tim Cohn
Granted, its hard to gauge in advance which social platforms will have the largest audience and reach after filtering out all their noise.
However, not registering your “brand” in their databases early on can lead to remorse later on.
If you haven’t done so already, register your own brandname.com / companyname.com and create accounts for the same names in MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and Flickr – if you can…
The same holds true for individuals.
Sign up for a Linkedin account under your personal brand: your name.
Don’t be disappointed though if you can’t. If yours is a common name – it surely has long since been registered.
Registering your brands with these sites may not make you any money in the short term, but if and when social media platforms ever figure out how to make money for themselves let alone for their advertisers and users, wouldn’t it be better for you to control your brand name(s) on the most successful social media sites instead of someone else?
This blog: Search Marketing Communications generated its second highest month in terms of traffic during October 2008 with 11,664 views.
Previously, this WordPress blog’s highest trafficked month was September 2008 with 22,897 views.
Roughly half as many views occurred during October 2008 as compared with September 2008, however combined traffic totals from these two months alone have generated 34,561 views – slightly over 1/3 of all blog traffic received since inception.
By the end of October 2008, cohn.wordpress.com had been viewed 86,750 times since its launch in September 2006.
In its first month of existence this blog had 1,593 total views.
October 2008 traffic was 7 times greater than September 2006 traffic.
Few people subscribe to this blog, thus the vast majority (an estimated 99% or greater) found this blog through some type of search query, which is why this blog is titled:
“Search Marketing Communications”
Search Traffic October 2008
Second Largest Month Blog Search Traffic: 11,664 Views
October 2008 Total Blog Traffic
Total Search Traffic October 2008
Search Marketing Communications 
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