Comments on: Announcing ElectionVine: Distributed Presidential Elections

By: Gil Creque

Gil Creque — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

What a fantastic idea Mike!!

By: Devon Shaw

Devon Shaw — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s a fine accomplishment from a technical perspective, but you run a serious risk of having it all undone by the likes of organized groups like Free Republic or MoveOn, who specifically target online polling and overload it to patently false degrees. The only thing this will ultimately measure is the persistence of strong advocates who target online polls — and there are many of them.

You’ll know more when the first 30 days of data rolls in, but when that time comes I’d suggest getting away from standard-fare polling (Which only really works with a preset sampling base) and more towards interpretive results, since internet-based results are far more dynamic.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Excellent! You and the newsvine guys/gals just keep on getting it right!

By: markus941

markus941 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

What an awesome and innovative idea. Are you planning on putting out a facebook app version of this too? That might really help spread it.

By: Don

Don — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

How long before Senator McCain has one of these babies on his very own Mike inspired myspace.com page?

http://www.myspace.com/johnmccain

Oh wait it looks like they might have actually made up their own template instead of using yours …

By: Adam Hobson

Adam Hobson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I wonder if this poll will eventually show up on the homepage of any candidate…

By: Josh Stodola

Josh Stodola — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is an absolutely superb idea!

By: Jeff Croft

Jeff Croft — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Very cool stuff. Rock on, guys.

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Those flash drop-down (drop-up) menus are so difficult to use.

By: Bryan Veloso

Bryan Veloso — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Love the idea. Love the execution. Great job Team Newsvine! Hopefully the mainstream media catches sight of this and finally gets a clue about the demographics they’re missing.

By: Cory Duncan

Cory Duncan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

A different spin on the presidential election – vote by campaign logo on LogoVoting.com.

Now if only someone would tell the candidates that DESIGN MATTERS.

By: Mark J.

Mark J. — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Great idea! Although the flash-select-field’s scrollbar is hard to use.

I just fear that there will be a general blue bias in this whole thing caused by those international voters (like me) who want to like US-Policy again someday ;) . Maybe you could show some numbers w/o the international voters?

By: Kyle Warner

Kyle Warner — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think this is an awesome idea, but I’m not sure how representative it will be.

From what I remember, a large portion of those who actually vote are over the age of 50. This also seems to be the group least likely to take an on-line poll. Yet the age demographic least likely to vote in the actual election is the same group who will most likely vote in this poll.

But none the less, GREAT IDEA!!

By: Calvin Tang

Calvin Tang — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m a flip flopper. I’ve changed my vote at least 10 times already.

By: Travis McCrea

Travis McCrea — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I am noticing a problem in firefox with this and how it interacts with my site..
I have a “to top/to bottom” button on the side of my page, this strangly effects how my page is rendered but it doesn’t negitivly impact anything, just causes minor annoyances. However, after having your widget up, it would create a major line through the middle of your widget… I will put it back up if you want me to show you whats happening unless you already know by looking at my site.