14 DAY TRIAL // New Hampshire is now the theater of operations for presidential caucuses, so that's where all the nation's attention is being pointed at. Yet again, to help with the information acquisition and distribution, there comes Google Maps with a map similar to the one that had Iowa listed last week.
As of today, users interested in the way things are going with the elections in the second state to caucus can redirect their browsers to maps.google.com/nhprimary2008 and kick back or watch filled with emotion (it depends on the character) as the results are being streamed in from across the towns of New Hampshire. Just like the Iowa results, the ones here will also be a starting point for guiding the next states to caucus into a general stream of thought on the matter.
As an interesting fact, almost all the presidents that had taken office since 1952, the first year the primary gained its influence, won their respective party's New Hampshire race. It's sort of a make or break moment for the candidates, the results here will most definitely be determinant for many of them and will come to be a deciding moment, whether they continue or withdraw.
At the moment I am writing this, the maps look pretty interesting, with Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama way ahead of the rest and separated by about 7 thousand votes, while the Republican stage proves to be a close struggle between John McKain and Mitt Romney, separated by thirteen thousand votes.
Additional coverage is to be expected from other Google products and services, like YouTube, just as the story went in Iowa, with voter videos collected by the video sharing service, which also provides information submitted by candidates as to how caucuses work and what to do while caucusing.