[FoRK] Polls, matchups

[Luis Villa]

BTW, if someone wanted to do a data visualization/scripting project
that would get made political-blog hits, you'd combine the data in:

http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Obama/Maps/Apr29.html
http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Clinton/Maps/Apr29.html

and

http://www.pollster.com/08-AR-Pres-GE-MvC.php
etc.

to give a comparative analysis of the two candidates based on
pollster.com's more sophisticated rolling-average polling, and with
more informative graphics than electoral-vote.com, i.e., allowing
direct comparison of their numbers (e-v.com requires you to go to two
different pages to compare the numbers in any depth.)

Doing this currently is a PITA.

Luis

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Luis Villa <luis at tieguy.org> wrote:
> http://www.pollster.com/blogs/poll_apipsos_national_2.php
>
>  but note that it is a slight outlier:
>
>  http://www.pollster.com/08-US-Pres-GE-MvC.php
>
>  As I've said before, when in doubt on polling, go to pollster.com.
>
>  (And FWIW, I've decided I have better things in life to do than debate
>  politics here, which is why I've dropped out. But providing links I
>  can do.)
>
>  Luis
>
>
>
>  On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> wrote:
>  >
>  >  This and $3.84 will get you an iced tall non-fat no-whip mocha.  I saw this
>  > of Faux News yesterday, and this (The Hindu) was the only place I could find
>  > the same numbers today, so take it with a grain of salt.
>  >
>  >         http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200804291656.htm
>  >
>  >  "The Democratic Senator from New York led McCain by nine points in what is
>  > perhaps the best news her campaign has seen or heard in the last several
>  > weeks, AP-Ipsos poll said. Equally importantly perhaps, her rival and
>  > Democrat front-runner Barack Obama, 47, remained virtually tied with McCain
>  > in the poll, giving credence to Clinton's contention that she is more
>  > "electable" than the Illinois Senator."
>  >
>  >  "The former first lady was leading McCain, 50 per cent to 41 per cent,
>  > while Obama remains virtually tied with McCain, 46 per cent to 44 percent.
>  > Both Democrats were roughly even with 71-year-old McCain in the previous
>  > poll about three weeks ago."
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  jb
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  PS - unsatisfied with just Faux News plus a non-domestic source, I went
>  > looking and found this:
>  >
>  >   http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080428/ap_on_el_pr/presidential_race_ap_poll
>  >
>  >
>  >
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