The Economist – Graphic detail

The Economist now hosts a number of blogs, and like The Guardian and other media organisations, includes a data blog with a ‘daily chart’.  The following links include the US presidential election.  Look out for a contemporary example of Florence Nightingale’s rose or coxcomb diagram, which gives me an excuse to link to the Understanding Uncertainty site’s great animation on this topic.
http://www.economist.com/node/21555743
http://understandinguncertainty.org/files/animations/Nightingale11/Nightingale1.html