Polling trends and Google trends

Polling data is abundant online for this election and it's becoming quite a popular thing to follow.

Today, Daily Kos published results from eleven different polls. Pollster.com and fivethirtyeight.com are two good sites for polling data online. They also put up a tracking poll primer today.

Also I read an interesting article by Daniel Sinker showing the Google search data for Obama vs. McCain and how it parallels polling data.

I also like Slate's poll tracking application for the iPhone - it's been a good way to watch results on the fly.

techPresident on Compete.com Data - Site Visits Mirror Recent Polls

I thought this post by Micah Sifry of techPresident was prescient - according to compete.com, site visit stats so far this year mirror polling data both nationally and in key states like Iowa and California. As of June, Clinton has a strong lead. Republican data isn't as strong as Democratic data in general - it's widely known they aren't campaigning as heavily online - but their rankings still line up fairly well.

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Originally posted at sairy.com, the personal blog of FutureCampaigns founder, Sarah Granger.