Midterms: Cool Tools On News Web Sites
MSNBC.com is using a very cool tool called the “Democracy Dashboard” to present midterm election trends.![]()
The home page and the Politics section has a vertical bar with balance of power meters, a ticker of key races, and a link to “live results.” Clicking the results button displays a horizontal box with an auto-refreshing election map. Clicking the map leads to detailed data for each state.![]()
The Dashboard isn’t the only creative display of data on the Web tonight. CNN.com’s main political page shows all the major results on one handy page. FOXNews.com’s home page has a balance of power tracker. And ABCNews.com has a beautiful interactive map…

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Nadine Cheung
Editor, The Job Post
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