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| Are You a Swing Voter? | ||
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Ran in: Slate, October 27, 2008 Built with: Flash, XML Description: This calculators makes use of thousands of data points from the Census Bureau, Gallup Polls, and a variety of other sources that help determine whether a particular type of person is a coveted political demographic in his or her state. Embedded from Slate with permission. | ||
| Choose Your Own Running Mate | ||
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Ran in: Slate, July 16, 2008 Built with: Javascript, JSON Description: The lull between the end of the primaries and the political conventions in the summer of 2008 left plenty of time to speculate about who Barack Obama and John McCain would choose as their running mates. We decided to cast as wide a net as possible, building a database that included every qualifying senator, governor, former cabinet secretary, and so forth. Since there were hundreds of possibilities, this was presented as a game where readers could filter the pool down to candidates who met their personal requirements. |
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