America made history tonight, electing its first African American president.
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Categories: Data + Graphics, General Journalism
Tagged: election, election08, word cloud
- Published:
- November 5, 2008 – 1:49 am
- Author:
- By Chrys
As news organizations, watchdogs and voters prepare for the Super Bowl of politics, it seemed like a good idea to survey what will be online for Nov. 4.
Some sites will start their coverage early. Already, the massive, all-volunteer Twitter Vote Report has been logging and mapping voting problems and good experiences.
Most complaints so far have [...]
Categories: Data + Graphics, General Journalism, Maps, Mobile, Photojournalism, Social Media, video
Tagged: election, election08, interactives, photos
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- November 3, 2008 – 11:52 pm
- Author:
- By Chrys
The political satire site 23/6 has been watching the campaign carefully — so carefully they’ve discovered the presidential debates have a lot of repetition.
While you may have thought you recognized familiar phrases, you can’t beat the evidence shown in this side-by-side-by-side edit from the broadcasts.
Get the latest news satire and funny videos at 236.com.
The video [...]
Categories: General Journalism, video
Tagged: election
- Published:
- October 29, 2008 – 11:16 am
- Author:
- By Chrys
By most reported accounts, Barack Obama won Wednesday’s faceoff by not losing to John McCain.
The unfortunate thing about these televised events it that they sounded a lot like stump speeches and talking points, rather than any real discussion of plans and intentions.
Impressions are all the voting public is left with, so I thought I’d publish [...]
Categories: General Journalism, One For Fun
Tagged: election, politics
- Published:
- October 16, 2008 – 1:19 am
- Author:
- By Chrys
There are lots and lots of ways to keep up with tonight’s town hall between John McCain and Barack Obama.
You could watch on TV, of course, but what fun is that? Here are a few suggestions to make your viewing experience more engaging:
Graphic designer Erica Smith, whose creative and prolific mind has come up with [...]
Categories: Data + Graphics, Games
Tagged: election, politics
- Published:
- October 7, 2008 – 6:18 pm
- Author:
- By Chrys
While election coverage may be on hiatus, speculation on who will be our next president is about to run wild.
Sean Connelley of the Los Angeles Times created an interactive, embeddable map that lets you test different electoral vote scenarios.
Think Wisconsin will go to McCain? Click and the state turns red. Believe the die-hard Democrats and [...]
Categories: Data + Graphics, Games, One For Fun
Tagged: election, fun, Games, politics
- Published:
- June 7, 2008 – 9:09 am
- Author:
- By Chrys