In the runup to today's vote, we've gotten three separate pitches for new websites which mash together Twitter messages and election results. Three's a trend. But what's the story? Twitter's hot, and the election's hot, so these wantrepreneurs figure that putting them together will land their startup some VC funding. But these efforts just leave me cold. Why not visit Twitter's live stream of status updates? Last I checked, it was all election, all the time.

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