Washington Post Interactive Electoral Map and Contest

The Washington Post has an interactive electoral map as well. You pick which states will go to McCain and which states will go to Obama, then enter your map into a contest. The winner gets a $500 gift certificate to Best Buy. They also have a feature called "starting picks" which helps you fill out your map. One, swing states, gives each non-competitive state to its appropriate candidate and then leaves the swing states left to fill out. Another "starting picks" feature will highlight the map by the 2004 results. What is unique about this compared to Tv and print media is that it can go through all the potential electoral scenarios in a much faster and easier to visualize and understand way. It also allows for instantaneous response to a contest/promototion that TV or print media could never get.