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Yahoo! has introduced several offerings designed to keep users in the know during this presidential election.  The first called the Political Dashboard.  The dashboard allows users to read campaign headlines, track polls, and even create their own scenarios.

It includes a red and blue Electoral College map and allows the user’s candidate’s poll performance to be tracked over time.  On Election Day their homepage will offer snapshots of each candidate’s current status as each state’s polls close and its winner announced, and simply searching for “Obama” or “McCain” will direct users to shortcuts providing the latest news, online discussions, and poll results.  Users can also use their cell phones and Yahoo! Mobile to access election coverage and information.

The net has proven to be a strong factor in this year’s election.  From Obama’s text message announcing his running mate to streaming live coverage of each debate, over 50% of voters get their election news online.  Yahoo’s tools, as well as its revamped Yahoo! News, which provides a new, streamlined approach to current news stories, put political junkies and undecided voters alike in the front row with entertaining and easy to use resources for keeping on top of this undeniably historic election and helping them make their vote truly count.

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