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Yahoo’s most emailed story: “Counting down to Election Day, Barack Obama appears within reach of becoming the nation’s first black president.”
Tech Buzz Of 6500 professional men surveyed by Sheraton Hotels, 35 percent of them preferred their Blackberries to their wives. Immediately, the wives responded, “Well maybe if you’d learn how to use your thumbs at the same time in the bedroom, we wouldn’t have this problem!” (Ba dum bum!)
A cool visualization technique adds up the polls in all the states, shows the margin of error in the data, and let’s you see at a glance the chances of each candidate getting the 270 electoral college votes need to win on election day.
Politics Buzz An electoral poll aggregator that tries to adjust for a poll’s historical performance. It’s a stats paradise! See also: Perspectv
The post-convention bounce gives McCain a 10 point lead according to one poll but the actual data tells a more complicated story.
Politics Buzz A one-stop microsite with recent poll results, electoral college predictors, and feeds from Twitter, blogs, and the news. “Perspctv” is my new infoporn homepage til November 4, but I’m also checking these three other sites.
Tech Buzz A website that lets you upload videos representing two different sides of an argument, and then let the audience vote for which side they’re on. It never occurred to me that The People’s Court could get quite this RAW. From the very mundane (“Should making your bed be part of a daily routine?”) to some of Life’s Big Questions (“Is it okay for a girl to ask a guy out?”), this site’s RAWness makes me feel like I’m at the center of my own existential crisis.