The President of the United States of America

I've always found US politics much more interesting than Canadian politics. Not that we don't have our interesting political intrigues here in Canada...

It's hard to keep up with all the latest polls and national polls don't always mean a whole lot since the US's electoral college makes voting results in individual states more important.

tripias.com's State by State 2004 offers a compendium of state by state polls across the US, organized into a nice red and blue map to show you the predicted picture if the election were held today ("today" being the day the individual polls were taken). As of this writing it's predicting a Bush victory (331 to 207 electoral college votes - 270 are needed to win).

If you want to try out some scenarios, check out Opinion Journal's Electoral College Calculator. There are a few pre-defined historical scenarios: 1984's battle between Republican incumbent Ronald Reagan and Minnesota's Democratic candidade Walter Mondale. Electoral whup-ass! Ouch...
 

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