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Immerse yourself in the web's best elections coverage at AOL News - Elections '08!
This election will go down in history as the most highly contested and publicized presidential race in our country's history. And to bring our users the best, we at AOL News have launched the most comprehensive coverage, delivering you real-time national, state and local results.
So, as you prepare for the long wait at the polls, do your candidate research for your presidential choices (I hope you've figured that out by now) all the way down to your local county seats and ballot measures.
Candidate News: John McCain | Barack Obama
Get the latest Election '08 Results: Presidential | Senate | House | Governor
State Results: Virginia | New York | California | select your state.
Be sure to also read the latest political commentary at political machine and live blogging from Mo Rocca on his newly designed web-site -- Mo Rocca 180 -- it's only half as tedious as the regular news.
It was a heartbreaking loss for Memphis but for the first time in 20 years the Jayhawks are the NCAA BB Champions. The final game tonight capped off a tumultuous final on March Madness and was the end of a record year for AOL Sports. The March Madness package was the best to date, surpassing our goals and setting page view records, that included editorial coverage of each region, live bracket scores via an interactive flash scoreboard and individual gamepages with news, team and player stats.
The heart of the package was built on original coverage, realtime game data, player stats and differentiated further by a strong edgier look and feel that made the package stand out on its own. Top it off with a first class sponsor in Audi.
We rounded off the experience with a host of games for tournament fans. Starting off with the best looking printable bracket to the interactive bracket games built in collaboration with our partner Stats, inc. -- Bracket Challenge, Bracket Manager and Second Chance Challenge.
The race for the presidency starts tonight. As the first of many caucuses and primaries for the 2008 elections gets underway tonight in Iowa, it signals the start of our official election results coverage.
We've developed one of the most comprehensive election websites at AOL to date. There are many significant achievements to cover, such as the interactive maps with detailed state by state results to the fully automated modules and widgets (the list goes on and on). Thanks to the entire team for all the dedication, hard work and attention to detail.
After the polls close tonight at 9pm, the results will start pouring in and the site will come alive.
Check it out: Full Election Coverage | Iowa Democratic Results | Iowa Republican Results
This past week we launched an entirely new AOL News product called Hot Seat.
The concept is simple. Take a question of controversial nature, put it in front of an audience with an average of 25 million pageviews per day and it will start a conversation, maybe even a heated debate.
The main objective is to get the candidate to respond. In our first few days of launching, the John Edwards campaign responded to Mark Halperin's question, "Could John Edwards really win Iowa?".
So far the poll has generated 70,914 votes from users across the nation and has spurred Edwards' campaign to respond. His response appears just below the poll results along with hundreds of user comments.
We've gathered a few of the best minds in the political blogesphere to engage the candidates that will be on the Hot Seat. This group includes Arianna Huffington and Bill Maher from the Huffington Post, the Politico's John Harris, Slate's chief political writer John Dickerson and many more.
John Edwards this past Friday. Who will be next? New Polls each weekday...
