This site was pointed out to me yesterday, and it's fascinating, in a voyeuristic political webcam sort of way. It's the Current Electoral Vote Predictor. The simple brilliance of this site is that it ignores those stupid national presidential polls, since national popular vote is irrelevant in our electoral college system. Instead, it gathers state-by-state polls, giving insight on what the talking heads mean when they discuss "battleground states" on television as well as the campaign strategy of teams Bush and Kerry.
The biggest surprise came when I saw Bush was favored by only 55% of the voters in Texas. Sure, Kerry's support lags far, far behind and the state will easily go for Bush in November, but the support here isn't nearly as strong as I'd have thought (compared to, say, Utah) and the "undecideds" are surprisingly large in number.
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