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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Wow. by Sheetrock · 2004-09-07 11:35 · Score: 3, Interesting

Remember when politics was about trying to figure out the best guy for the job?
We've sure gotten away from that. The whole Swift Boat thing has made a great distraction from any meaningful issues that could be raised. And now a 'political stock market simulation'?
What's wrong with politics that we do everything we can to stop from looking at it objectively? Why make it a game?

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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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