Place Your Bets

This is going to be the first in a short series of posts about the most important part of any political campaign, the people money donated by large companies to each of the candidates. Thanks to the magic of both the internet and campaign finance laws we will be able to look who is putting their money on whom.

PULL!

Maybe this should have been posted earlier. One of the more common features by bad bloggers and even worse news reports is the constant beating of the latest poll numbers. Bloggers will sound the trumpets when their supported candidate is ahead in the polls (while gleefully ignoring when the news is bad or attempt to discredit the poll, that they had just supported, when it is not in their favor).

The unemployed

As we mentioned in our previous post there is a solid amount of scholarship on the connection between the economy and the incumbents chances of being reelected. One of the easiest ways of measuring the economic well being of an area is through the unemployment numbers.