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FiveThirtyEight.com Widget: Electoral Projections in a Widget!
Monday, November 3, 2008 at 1:51PM
With the 2008 Presidential Election now just hours away, we are happy to announce that you can get the FiveThirtyEight.com widget on Widgetbox - keeping you informed with the latest voting trends, polls, projections and breaking news.
The 538 widget is just a couple days old and already has over 4,000 installs on various blogs and websites... hopefully an indication of people's intention to vote!
About FiveThirtyEight.com (from their website):
Who are you? My name is Nate Silver and I live in Chicago. For additional background, please see here or here. The other contributor to this website, Sean Quinn, lives in California.
What is the significance of the number 538? 538 is the number of electors in the electoral college.
What is the mission of this website? Most broadly, to accumulate and analyze polling and political data in way that is informed, accurate and attractive. Most narrowly, to give you the best possible objective assessment of the likely outcome of upcoming elections.
The 538 widget is just a couple days old and already has over 4,000 installs on various blogs and websites... hopefully an indication of people's intention to vote!
About FiveThirtyEight.com (from their website):
Who are you? My name is Nate Silver and I live in Chicago. For additional background, please see here or here. The other contributor to this website, Sean Quinn, lives in California.
What is the significance of the number 538? 538 is the number of electors in the electoral college.
What is the mission of this website? Most broadly, to accumulate and analyze polling and political data in way that is informed, accurate and attractive. Most narrowly, to give you the best possible objective assessment of the likely outcome of upcoming elections.
Reader Comments (22)
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Oberman deserves alot of credit
Perhaps its time to have a widget call "100" 100 is the first hundred days in office.
100 for first 100 days in office and 4 for 4 years in office. Any takers?
Wow that sounds cool . I think it must be very helpful. Thanks for the information.
Today is inauguration day for Obama. Any widget to monitor his progress from day 1? May he lift USA from the current meltdown.
Excellent, entertaining, useful reading, Thanks !!
That's the power of widgets and you guys realise that.
your blog is awsome
Shall get widgets for other stuffs!..cool one!
Are we able to see the polls now?
Obama is absolutely the right one .
Do you all have follow up with Obama's news?
Are you trying to promote your website? I have seen tonnes of elections update news widgets at widgetbox! What makes you stand out from the rest? It seems like you do have lots of supports.Good luck.
Thanks for explaining what your URL name is. Pretty interesting though. I have check out your site and realize that you have lots of categories and news updates. My penny of thought, would you mind reorganizing your web layout as it seems rather confusing to me.
I not really crazy about political issues and a certain times unsure where to start from. Your website is great for me to update news that I have missed out .I am also able to see what other people commented about that subject to provide me with better knowledge on what people think about it.Good!
Most broadly, to accumulate and analyze polling and political data in way that is informed, accurate and attractive. Most narrowly, to give you the best possible objective assessment of the likely outcome of upcoming elections?
we won
great use of widget especially in a political sense
great use of widget especially in a political sense
What for you have started this..To promote your site?
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