Description
October 12 Update: We have improved the display of the electoral vote count. We made a mistake in shrinking the size of the electoral vote numbers: This update makes the electoral vote numbers easy to read and to comprehend.
A later update will add a national map.
We also want to explain to the application’s original users why we changed the polling data when we updated the app. In updating the application, we’re partnering with Pollster.com, the most respected polling analysis company in America. In the original application, polls were collected unsystematically and interpreted by someone without experience analyzing polls. The data for the updated application are much more comprehensive: Pollster.com collects every single available poll and subjects them to expert analysis. That’s why we’re confident that the data in Poll Tracker ’08 by SLATE is more accurate and more useful than the data in the first version of the application.
WHAT DOES POLL TRACKER ’08 BY SLATE DO?
Poll Tracker ’08 by SLATE delivers comprehensive, up-to-the-minute information about the presidential election. The application, relying on data and analysis from Pollster.com, analyzes all available polls and produces graphs and charts about every state, including the latest McCain and Obama polling numbers, historical polling trends, and voting patterns in previous elections. It also estimates the electoral vote counts of the candidates.
Poll Tracker ’08 users can sort states by how contested they are, how fresh their poll data is, or how heavily they lean to McCain or Obama.