Google tool lets you track John McCain and Barack Obama
So, you want to know where John McCain and Barack Obama have been on the campaign trail? Where they've been in their lives? Google has a new toy tool that lets political junkie
s get cartographic.
Our colleagues over on the Technology blog have the details and a deeper explanation of Google's intent to have people adapt the tool for their own uses.
But there already are a lot of different ways to play with it. This, for instance, shows you the McCain and Obama campaign trails. This is a "bio map" of McCain, and this is of Obama. The Twitterati have got one going. So far, nada for tracking delivery of late-night pizza to various campaign headquarters, or kitchens where couples are arguing Obama versus McCain. But you just know that's coming sometime.
A personal favorite: Huffington Post's fundraising map. See if you can spot yourselves in there.
-- Scott Martelle
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Posted by Scott Martelle on July 1, 2008 in Campaigning , Democratic Politics , Gimmicks , Media , Political History , Presidential Campaign , Primary Calendar , Republican Politics , Silliness , Superdelegates , Twitter , Web/Tech | Permalink
Don Frederick has served as an editor helping guide coverage of every presidential election since 1984. He is a third-generation Washingtonian, so watching the political world comes naturally to him.
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000.
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it's cool that Google has developed such a tool but doesn't that put the candidates in danger? I'm all for Obama. Please support Obama, visit our website at WhyObama08.org! Obama for president!!!
Posted by: Aiken Blue | July 02, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Even though I am thrilled with our society's rapid increase of new technology, I think it's hard enough running for president without a psycho maniac tracing your every move...((well, thats why they are running for president and not me.)))....and because McCain does not know how to use a personal computer (seemingly his incompetent ever changing staff doesn't either), we can be sure that Mcain wont ever play with this new "toy"!
Posted by: BeSmart | July 02, 2008 at 12:45 PM