For those that like to follow the money trail, The Huffington Post has a new page called Fundrace 2008, which features a nice Google maps mash-up tracking the larger individual campaign donations. You can enter your address to take a look at what kind of donations your neighbors are making or zoom out to get a sense of where the candidates are getting their big donor support.

A few bloggers have cleverly used this tool to point out another manifestation of the Microsoft-Google rivalry. Google employees gave more to Obama, while Microsoft workers, overall, threw their monetary support behind Hillary. Could these two tech giants present a metaphor for the competing candidates' arguments? The older, more established, more experienced Microsoft vs. a younger company representing a different generation and a bottom-up business model...There might be something there.

This new web tool should be commended as it shines a little more sunslight on our politicial process; on the other hand, I imagine that for those that donate it could start to feel a little too sunny.