What Herman Cain and Jimmy Carter Have in Common
Apparently there’s a strong correlation between people who search for GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain and those querying for the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library.
Here, for example, is a map of Herman Cain web searches back to 2003, according to Google Correlate:
Here’s a map of searc...
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Charting Troops in Iraq
President Obama on Friday announced that U.S. troops would be leaving Iraq by year’s end. The New York Times’ take:
The president’s statement, coming a day after a NATO air campaign hastened the death of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in Libya, was laden with symbolism, marking the ebb tide of a dec...
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How, Exactly, Can You Spell 'Muammar Gaddafi'?
Via @elisewho:
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U.S. Broadband Internet Speed
How the U.S. compares with other countries in average broadband download speed, via the Google Public Data explorer:
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fishnette: Loving the roll-outs of presidential campaign finance interactive data sites with great visualizations by the Washington Post and the New York Times this week. A former CU student, Jason Bartz, helped create the Post graphic, while Derek Willis is on the New York Times team. Derek has a
Fishnette: The future of political reporting... and data. Some links.
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Mapping Where GOP Candidates Raise Their Campaign Donations
Federal Election Commission records show Republican presidential candidates have raised about $90 million through the third quarter of this year — but where is the money coming from?
These maps visualize the geographic source of candidates’ campaign cash by plotting symbols that represent the n...
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Charting Obama's Path
While in Europe I missed this excellent interactive graphic by Alicia Parlapiano and Amanda Cox of The New York Times. It plots 2008 presidential election results by state with adult residents’ higher education rates:
Some Democrats believe Ohio may no longer be crucial to a 2012 election vic...
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sunfoundation: The UnFacebook World A map of Facebook overlaid on a map of cities at night reveals a
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Gallup: Cain Up. Perry Down.
I’m a bit shocked by this latest polling detail from Gallup about the GOP presidential field:
The upward trend continues in Republicans’ ratings of presidential candidate Herman Cain, as does the downward trend in their ratings of Rick Perry. Cain’s Positive Intensity Score has increased to 3...
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Mapping Political Power in The Netherlands
I spent the last few days in The Hague, the seat of Dutch government. One of the highlights was a visit to the country’s lower house in Parliament, called the Tweede Kamer Der Staten General.
The 150-member body is a coalition of 10 political parties, with the conservative-liberal People’s Par...
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