Much has been made of our President’s historically low approval ratings, so I wanted to put some context to the numbers. Thanks to the Roper Center Public Opinion Archives, I was able to do just that.
Bush’s low of 19% is the lowest of all presidents in the age of polling. That number came in September [...]
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Voter Turnout in 2008 Revisited
In my last post on voter turnout, I promised an update when final numbers were in…and here we are. In the meantime, I’ve been researching the topic and found Dr. Michael McDonald’s United States Elections Project to be extremely valuable. I’ll summarize, but I encourage you to check out the US Elections Project Web site.
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Obama – McCain Election Draws Record Voter Turnout in 2008
UPDATE 11/7/2008: The Federal Election Commission has lowered it’s preliminary estimate of people who voted in the 2008 election to 122,253,622. That’s only 61.9% of all eligible voters, which hasn’t been bested since 1964 (Lyndon Johnson over Barry Goldwater). But the numbers remain preliminary, so I’ll revisit everything when it is finalized. Thanks! –frets
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Yesterday’s election [...]
Gas Prices and the 2008 Presidential Election
Ever since my last post, I’ve watched the gas price at local stations keep coming down! What a welcome relief. It seems like the only thing coming down faster is the stock market (ba dum bum). But seriously folks, I wanted to see how this year stacks up against prior years, so here it is:
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Are Gas Prices Manipulated Before Presidential Elections?
Are gas prices manipulated to go down prior to a Presidential election? My research led me to look at the national level because the data for states is difficult to ascertain, and probably irrelevant. According to the EIA, in particular their Oil Market Basics publication, the largest variance in gas prices would occur at the [...]
Your RNC / DNC Convention Reduced to a Word Cloud
Now that the Democratic and Republican National Conventions are over, I grabbed all of the (available) speech texts from the DNC and RNC Web sites and threw them into wordle.net just for fun (yep, I’m sadistic that way sometimes). It is hard to compare word occurrences because the Republicans don’t have nearly as many speeches [...]
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