Tag: election
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Primary Election Day, NYC
NY Primary Election Day – what you need to know
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Democracy in Action
One of the final acts before changing our address to NYC was to mail in our ballots for the upcoming election. There was a bit of a hiccup because the post office didn’t automatically forward our ballots to our NY address so I had a pleasant conversation with Lisa at the Alameda County Registrar of…
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Goodbye Super Tuesday
Big day yesterday with Bloomberg dropping out this morning, all eyes looking to see what Warren will do and everyone wondering why Tulsi Gabbard is still hanging in there. More details at The Race.
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Revving up the Election
Guess who’s running for congress and ready to kick some ass? Things are starting to heat up.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaign ad
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shocked everyone last night with her huge upset the in New York’s 14th congressional district primary. The 28-year-old newcomer unseated Democrat Joe Crowley, a 10-term incumbent and one of the more powerful old guards of the party. Not only that, headlines screamed, she was a socialist. She was outspent 18-to-1 and Congressman Crowley…
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The best political ad anyone’s ever seen
Lin-Manuel Miranda calls it “the best political ad anyone’s ever seen.” M.J. Hegar’s ad is simply titled, “Doors” I’m sure the Rolling Stones will not mind their Gimmie Shelter riff being used in the background for this campaign.
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Fun with Google Trends Real Time
Google Trends announced last week that they’ve upgraded their service to be real time. Using their tools, I created a dashboard so you can quickly see who’s trending in Google Search for the past 7 days. If I did this right, this page should continually update. I’ll manually add/remove names as the list of candidates…
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Revenge of the Nerds
While everyone spoke of New York Times blogger, Nate Silver’s uncanny, almost witchlike ability to call the election last night, the big winner was the triumph of big data and smart algorithms over gut feel and egos. Those in tech that have been following Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight blog at the New York Times broke out…
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Obama Up, Romney Down
The New York Times’ wonky FiveThirtyEight blog posted this rather dramatic graph showing the poll numbers of Obama and Romney over the past few weeks. What used to be a 1-2 point difference is now a 5-6 point gulf with the lines getting further, not closer, together.