Thanks Wired for pointing me to these totally awesome pict-o-grams relating the candidates to pop culture icons. My personal favorites are the Brittney Spears, Sea Lab 2021, typography and game machines.

On a serious note, there is a great website for tracking and making sense of the polling data. It’s called Five Thirty Eight (the total number of electoral votes) and it crunches the data from all of the polls into one, easy to read site. The site is run by Nate Silver, a famous baseball statistician who is able to accurately predict team wine/ loss records and player performance. He recently turned his sites to politics, which, like baseball, is a data driven field. During the primary’s, his numerical predictions were right on the money. As of today, the polls look good for Obama.