US election swingometer for the utterly obsessive
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October
I get confused following US elections, especially for the House. Mostly because of the weird borders they’ve gerrymandered in order to ensure as many safe seats as possible. Lovely. Also, they don’t seem to do a ’swingometer’ style analysis, at all. It’s all about current polling data, very little public psephology. Fortunately, blogging allows all of us to exhibit our random obsessions, and Iain Weaver has prepared a fairly good swingometer analysis for the US 2006 elections. Definately a handy resource to refer to on results night.
And yes, I keep forgetting to post stuff. Sorry about that, I seem to have lost my anger recently, which is weird given the amount of stupidity around out there at the moment. I have however been in contact with a few potential contributors, so when I get things sorted out we might actually see the site moving again. Also? I hate rich text editors, no idea how I managed to turnt eh damned thing on. Ah well.
1. Pete in Dunbar | October 31st, 2006 at 8:24 pm
“Also? I hate rich text editors, no idea how I managed to turnt eh damned thing on. Ah well.”
It’s under Users. There’s a check box “Use the visual rich editor when writing” at the bottom of the profile page. Uncheck it. You get a plain text area, with some javascript formatting buttons that add in the tags visibly.
2. MatGB | November 1st, 2006 at 12:37 am
Yeah, I found it immediately after I posted, I was just trying to do things like striekthroughs and small text like I normally do in footnotes and hating the pop up edit html thing. Fixed now, no idea how or when I turned it on, never ever use them. Thx tho.
3. D-Notice | November 1st, 2006 at 9:58 pm
Do you visit the Electoral vote site? http://www.electoral-vote.com/
4. MatGB | November 1st, 2006 at 10:24 pm
Aye, but it’s based around polling data, not results last time and possible swings. For some reason, predicting voting patterns based on how people voted last time seems beyond their normal pundits.
Very strange, as it’s second nature over here. Last time + demographics + polls. There, it’s just polls. Makes it a bugger to figure out what they’re up to.