Susan Mernit has some good suggestions for innovative ways online news sites could enhance their election coverage:
• Team with Technorati or Feedster to include links to bloggers comments on stories
• Team up with Topix to provide a more complete index of local news stories related to election topics
• Team with a large blogging service to create local citizen/journal reporters who can moblog local campaign and election events
• Team up with an RSS newsreader to offer a customized and branded newsreader customized with political feeds