About 8 months ago I blogged about a Twitter mashup called Politweets that tracked pre-nomination candidates across the twittersphere. Nowadays there are a couple of newer, better tools that I wanted to spotlight.

The first is Twitter's own Election page at http://election.twitter.com. It's a real-time stream of every tweet in the public timeline that mentions any of the candidates. It also has a brief collection of popular election tags (e.g. Tina Fey, Bailout) at the top of the page. You can also filter by candidate, so you can monitor the tweets only about Obama, McCain, or either of the VP candidates.

The next one was sent into us by Langston Richardson, one of the developers of Tweet '08. It has a lot in common with Twitter's in-house election page, but it also features a real-time count of Obama tweets vs. McCain tweets. Right now Obama is leading by a hair. I like the side-by-side layout, too, which is reminiscent of the last generation's Politweets.

If you ever feel like you're behind on what's going on in candidate news, gossip, or drama. Just spend a few minutes on one these mashups.