Five weeks until election day and the electoral map provides Senator Barack Obama several routes to 270 electoral vote. The easiest of which appears to be to hold the 2004 Kerry states and pick up Iowa, New Mexico, and Colorado. Senator John McCain has fewer options is now defending Virginia, Nevada, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina [...]

10/3 Update: Map of repackaged Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 from The New York Times Details on the Republican and Democratic representatives who voted to reject a $700 billion rescue of the financial industry. From The Electoral Map The New York Times has a great map of the “NO” votes on the bailout bill yesterday.  There’s not [...]

The New York Times has another article and map graphic in their Stateside series examining swing states, this time the focus is on Nevada. Nevada is divided in large part between rural and urban voters, newcomers versus old-timers, the contours of the political discussion formed by growth, energy and immigration. While the voters in the [...]

The New York Times has an article and map graphic outlining the challenges and strengths of the McCain and Obama campaigns in Virginia. No Democratic presidential candidate has won Virginia since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, and Republican Party leaders say the selection of Ms. Palin has improved Mr. McCain’s chances of carrying the state. [...]

The New York Times examines the challenges facing Barack Obama in Pennsylvania, a state won by both Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004. To roam the rural reaches of western Pennsylvania, through largely white working-class counties, is to understand the breadth of the challenge facing the two presidential candidates. But this economically ravaged region, once [...]

Six weeks until the presidential election and the electoral map tilts back towards Barack Obama after John McCain brief post-convention lead. FiveThirtyEight.com :Obama 312, McCain 226 Electoral-Vote.com : Obama 264, McCain 261, Tossup 13 Princeton Election Consortium : Obama 273, McCain 265 Real Clear Politics : Obama 219, McCain 189, Toss Ups 130 | No [...]

The University of Richmond‘s Digital Scholarship Lab created interactive and cinematic maps of the US presidential elections from 1840 to 2004. The maps provide a geographic time line of US presidential elections. America Voting Election Maps 1840 – 2004 Interactive Map Video Commentary Map Very small sampling of the maps available below… addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fpoliticalmaps.org%2Fvoting-america-united-states-politics-1840-2008%2F’; [...]

Current polling for the 2008 Senate elections indicate that the democrats will pick up a few seats in November further increasing their majority over the republicans. FiveThirtyEight.com and CQ Politics are both projecting the democrats picking up 5 senate seats currently held by republicans. The senate would be composed of 54 Democrats, 44 Republicans and [...]

Post convention polls have been favorable to John McCain and he now has the lead in several electoral map predictions as of September 15th. Five Thirty Eight: Obama 250.3 McCain 287.7 Princeton Election Consortium: Obama 273 McCain 265 Electoral-Vote.com: Obama 268 McCain 270 RealClearPolitics: Obama 273 McCain 265 : addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fpoliticalmaps.org%2Fpost-convention-electoral-maps-and-polling-9-15-2008%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Post+Convention+Electoral+Maps+and+Polling+9-15-2008′; [...]

Karl Rove, Bush’s political strategist, has a new electoral map out featured on the LA Times website. Overall, Obama holds on to 226 electoral votes, while McCain moves up to 200 votes, and 112 votes are a toss-up, a new high in that category. McCain picked up two states from the toss-up column — Montana [...]