Quick Hits: Special Election Edition

Divided by topic and updated throughout the evening. I’ll also be on Fox5’s live election coverage tonight and on Twitter. Update: easy link to the Fox5 live web stream.

Election Coverage

• Update: The Next President’s First Text Message.
• Update: The Basics of Voter Suppression Tactics, via Shaun Dakin.
• Update: NYC, LA Press Using Twitter Vote Report to Zoom Local.
• Update: Election Night Gadgetry & Gizmos.
• Update: Robocalls still flying.
• Update: Freshly Squeezed Election Tweets — “a data visualization tool for election-related Twitter conversation — a standalone website, but you can also embed a smaller version in your own posts.” Sent in by William Beutler.
• Update: Bogus Robo-Texts Tell Obama Supporters They Can Vote Wednesday.
• Update: Causes Holds Largest Online Rally Ever To Get You To The Polls. C.f. Hacker Sends Voter Suppression E-mail to Students
• Update: Free Chicken Rumors Fuel Election Day Web Searches.
• Update: Battle of the Voting Place Tools.
• Update: Where To Follow The Election On The Web.
• Update: Texted by a Campaign? Let Us Know.
• Update: Voters Share the Moment Online.
• Update: Live Blogging: Covering the (TV) Coverage. C.f. Forget The Magic Wall. CNN Now Has Holograms.
• Update: Election Day’s Nine Worst Press Releases.
• Who Needs a Sticker? Facebook Users Change Status to ‘Voted’.

Election Night Tools

• Google Elections — great tools for visualizing past and current elections data. C.f. Google Maps the Election Returns.
• How to Watch the Election Returns, plus Where to Get Official Election Returns.
• Watching the Twitter Election Scroll. C.f. How Current TV Will Be Using Tweeted Vote Reports.
• Election 2008: An online resource guide, plus Election Day web tools.

Essential Background

• Obama’s Secret Weapons: Internet, Databases and Psychology. We’ll see the results of the turnout operation all night long, and this is what’s behind them.
• Will Texting Get Out the Vote?
• Obama’s Long Tail is Producing Results on the Ground. Remember that internet-driven ground game?
• Politics and Social Networks: Voters Make the Connection. C.f. Obama Bandwagon Effect on Facebook.
• Obama Campaign Floods The Zone On YouTube Too. C.f. The Digital Video Impact and YouTube Records Voting History, One Voter At A Time.
• Obama Shows Bigger Lead in Polls That Include Cell Phones.
• Obama REALLY Preaches to the Converted. Early voting changes the GOTV calculation.
• Internet Market Predictions.
• Web Puts Dog-Whistle Politics on a Leash. In a YouTube world, you can’t say one to one group and the opposite to another (dammit).
• Solid Ratings for Obama-mercial. C.f. Biden Marvels at Campaign’s Stagecraft.
• What Next for Obama’s Text-Messaging Database?
• Freaky web ad of the day: Seven-year-olds sing against same-sex marriage. C.f. Nader’s weird new web ad.
• Using the Blame Game to Get Out the Vote. MoveOn’s clever voter motivation tool.
• God, Country and McCain. Dems not the only activists on Facebook.
• Share Your View of the Election.
• E-mails to Jews link Obama, Third Reich.
• 20 Greatest Campaign Ads of All Time. Via PoliticalWire.

NON-Election Stories (we could all use a break by now)

• Watch, Listen & Learn Right Now — Pick Up With Your Base Post-Election. Psych!
• Prioritizing Your Web Marketing Budget — What Slice of the Pie Should Social Media Get?
• What Happens to the Obama Network After the Election? Plus, the exciting sequel.
• Presidential Transition 2.0: How to Use New Social Media.
• Social Media Strategy – Getting Buy In From The Top. C.f. Your Nonprofit Should Not Adopt Social Media If…..
• Microsoft to move Office apps to “the cloud”. I’m reluctant to follow for similar reasons.
• Twitter helps busts Robin Hayes.
• Community Crime-Fighting Goes Cellular in the District.
• Media Company’s Online Video Attempts.
• It’s the (Stupid) Economy — The Impact on Nonprofits.

Special Bonus Content: Random Stuff from the WashPo SocialMedian Widget

Content from their social news election stream.

– cpd