Politicalwire.com highlights how Google layered county voting results from the last seven presidential elections on to Google Maps and Google Earth. It’s an incredibly quick way to look at past election results. It really is a “great resource” for history buffs, political junkies and geeks. Google also has a good page to keep you up to the second on the twist and turns of Election 2008. They have a index of various election maps, including this one showing the “fundrace,” which highlights where in the country the campaign cash is coming from.

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This morning the Washington Post featured a great article and video by Dana Milbank highlighting all the locations in the district that hot spots in the current pantheon of political scandals. From Abramoff’s restaurant Signatures to the Capitol Yacht Club, where Sens. Ted Stevens and Larry Craig slept while Duke Cunningham ran amok, this scandal tour has everything. So, I decided to do the Web 2.0 thing and turn this tour into a Google Map. I whittled the list of locations down to congressional scandals. (Make sure to zoom in on the D St. locations. That’s a central point of muck.) Check it out and let me know what I missed.

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