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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Huh by c0dedude · 2004-09-07 11:43 · Score: 3, Informative

Why play for fake money when you can play for the real thing? Check this out.
Disclamer: Not associated with this site, just remember it from a /. story.

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Since when has this country used intellectual elite as a pejorative term?
Re:Why is Kerry trading at 3x Bush's value? by martianpenguin · 2004-09-07 15:09 · Score: 2, Informative

Obviously there are no Bush supporters signed up yet. Or at least they didn't sign up before the price changed. There are not nearly enough people signed up yet to show a representative value.
Re:Bush's liberal ownership by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-07 15:14 · Score: 1, Informative

Eh?

Shorting the stock means to borrow it and then sell it, hoping to buy it back at a lower price.

I don't think they are shorting it, just betting that he is going to win (I would bet on that myself. The polls show Bush in the lead right now).