Neue Zurcher Zeitung - Orange and teal.those are almost different than red and blue. This is the only map on the list that's in the public domain.d/l it and put it up on your site if you'd like. Wikipedia - Check out how the map changed throughout the night. Mark Newman - While not a realtime election returns map, Newman's maps provide a more accurate geographical look at how people voted. Wall Street Journal - Nice stipple portraits of the candidates. I wonder if those photos varied with the current results. Washington Post - Featuring a very smiley Obama and grumpy McCain. USA Today - This map proudly carries on the USA Today's tradition of cramming it in there. Talking Points Memo - They're using Google's map here, but with slightly different shades of red and blue. Politico - I do believe that's Silkscreen. LA Times - Nice and clean like the NY Times.

Guardian - No electoral totals on the map.they had those pulled out into a separate graphic. Google - Functional but not pretty, just like everything else Google does. No fancying up the maps.ĪP - Many sites were using AP's graphics, including C-SPAN.īBC - The BBC map had an option to toggle to see the area of the states in proportion to their electoral votes.ĬBS News - Looks like CBS ran out of room and squashed the US into a narrow column.Ĭolor Your Own Map - A Flickr user made a map you could print out and color in with crayons or colored pencils as the results came in.Ĭrikey - A definite outlier and favorite.Įl Mundo - 'Obama cambia el color de la Historia'. New York Times - Nice big clean map, the consensus best map of the 2008 election.į - These guys are all about the data. (Note: Some of these aren't the final maps.I wanted to get screenshots before the sites started moving things around too much.) Here are several of those maps, in some ways as similar to each other as they are varied. Most media outlets covering the 2008 US Presidential Election used the familar red/blue map to track the progress of the race as results from the polls rolled in Tueday evening.

2008 nytimes election results