{"id":933,"date":"2008-10-27T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=933"},"modified":"2008-10-27T23:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T22:35:00","slug":"538","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/538\/","title":{"rendered":"5:38"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_932\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-932\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.electoral-vote.com\/evp2008\/Pres\/Carto\/Oct27-c.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/politics.widmann.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/cartogr-300x216.png\" alt=\"Cartogram of predicted US election\" title=\"Cartogram of predicted US election\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-932\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-932\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cartogram of the predicted US election.  Each state has been scaled to according to the number of electoral college votes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>I&#8217;ve found a few nice web sites about the upcoming US presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>First and most importantly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/\">FiveThirtyEight<\/a> is a great site if you&#8217;re into opinion polls.  The guy running it does a lot of number crunching based on published polls (and makes nice illustrations), and in addition he writes interesting blog postings.<\/p>\n<p>In addition (and linked to from 5:38), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electoral-vote.com\/\">Electoral-vote.com<\/a> has nice maps updated on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, and on a more light-hearted note, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/vote2008\/\">The Economist&#8217;s Global Electoral College<\/a> is asking everybody on this planet to vote, and the result at the moment is 9120 electoral college votes for Obama, and 158 for McCain.<\/p>\n<p>Only Iraq is strongly in favour of the latter &ndash; could that be because most people accessing the internet from Iraq are American soldiers&#8230;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve found a few nice web sites about the upcoming US presidential election. First and most importantly, FiveThirtyEight is a great site if you&#8217;re into opinion polls. The guy running it does a lot of number crunching based on published polls (and makes nice illustrations), and in addition he writes interesting blog postings. In addition (and linked to from 5:38), Electoral-vote.com has nice maps updated on a daily basis. Finally, and on a more light-hearted note, The Economist&#8217;s Global Electoral College is asking everybody on this planet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,101,159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-election","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}