Political Stock Market Simulation

Posted by michael on Tuesday September 7, 2004 @11:32AM from the hedging-your-bets dept.

Elphaba Thropp writes "Zack Coburn (of ArsDigita fame) recently released Politics on ZackCoburn.com, a political stock market simulation in which 'political figures are the symbols. The price of each symbol will fluctuate as users rate it either positively or negatively.' Each user starts with $1,000,000, and can rate a symbol's performance every twenty-four hours. The site also offers user blogs, and contains a unique statistics page, in which the top users and symbols are shown, as well as the most liberally-owned and most conservatively-owned stocks are shown (based on a political survey each user can take). Interestingly enough, George W. Bush currently has the most liberal ownership."

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Re:liberal stock by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-07 14:23 · Score: -1, Flamebait

That's the difference between Democrats and Republicans.

The Republicans vote so their candidate will win.

The Democrats vote so the Republican will lose. Candidate? Pfft.