Front row for First in the Nation
Posted by Ginny Hunt, Google Election
Program
Tonight when Iowans gather in living rooms and high school gyms to
take the first step in selecting our U.S. Presidential nominees,
Google and YouTube will give you a front row seat.
We're working together with local Iowan media organizations and
political parties to bring you real time results and
citizen-generated videos from the caucuses –- an up-close and
personal perspective in the process to elect the next
President.
Iowa caucus goers and out-of-state political pundits alike can
upload videos of the Iowa Caucus to YouTube, giving you a direct
view into this vibrant political scene. These Iowa Caucus videos
can be found at the
href="http://www.youtube.com/iowacaucuses" id="ukk-" >Des Moines Register's YouTube
Channel and span a variety of perspectives from predictions and
personal reflections to interviews and candidate analysis.
And starting tonight (approx. 8-10 pm CST), you can use
href="http://maps.google.com/#source=ogbiowa"
id="m1xq" >Google Maps to view real-time caucus results by
county. The political parties in Iowa will be working with us to
publish these results to our
href="http://maps.google.com/maps/mpl?moduleurl=http://www.google.com/mapfiles/mapplets/iowacaucus/iowacaucus.xml&ie=UTF8&ll=42.0656,-93.6914&spn=5.040111,5.493164&z=7&om=1"
id="sy2j" >Iowa Caucus map as soon as they come in, so that
everyone can access results online when Iowans finish
caucusing.
To stay on top of campaign coverage, check out the
href="http://news.google.com/news?topic=el&promo_msg=el"
id="fcl0" >Google News Election
the
href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/igoogle/election.html#utm_source=en-zz-jan3blogpost&utm_medium=zz&utm_content=jan3blogpost&utm_campaign=en"
id="se73" >Election 2008 Google gadget for a one-stop shop to
follow the campaign trail.
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