Google Releases Raw Election Polling Results

An anonymous reader writes "Last week, Nate Silver ranked Google Consumer Surveys as one of the most accurate polling firms of the 2012 US election. This week, Google has released the raw data that went into its election-day prediction, and is running a contest for interesting visualizations of that data. They provide a few examples of their own, including a WebGL globe view."

Comments

Re:The country is dead

[Anonymous Coward]

Except that's strictly a right-wing fantasy. Obama actually LOWERED taxes and CUT regulations.

Been interesting if

[transporter_ii]

It would have been more interesting if the "Who do you want to win the US Presidential Election?" question had allowed for *any* candidate to be entered. I didn't want either of the two running to win. In fact, it is kind of a rip that only a handful of states actually count write-in votes.

This is part of the reason that the one-party system has a stranglehold on America because it craftily marginalizes decenters.

Re:Been interesting if

[mcgrew]

In the midwest we actually help each other and hold each other accountable.

True.

Our states are also not going bankrupt

Illinois isn't in the midwest? We're in worse shape than California.

and haven't had to put "nanny" laws on the books

Anti-pot laws are nanny state laws, and the only two state that have legalized reefer aren't in the midwest. Your soda example doesn't stop you from drinking as much soda as you want, and IINM New York City is the only place with that particular law.

We also immediately help each other during disasters and don't wait for the government to swoop in to save us.

Yes, we help each other during emergencies, but it looked from TV like those caught in Sandy were doing the same. And if you don't think Oklahoma, Missouri, and other midwestern states didn't accept FEMA help after tornados, you're not paying attention.

The rest of your comment was just meaningless lip flapping.

Now they can come after the opposition.

[EmagGeek]

I know I am pissing into the wind in asking people to call their senators and congressmen and voice your opposition to the new bill that gives the government warrantless, suspicionless access to your email and anything you store in the cloud, like your google docs.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57552225-38/senate-bill-rewrite-lets-feds-read-your-e-mail-without-warrants/

Once government can read all of your email (not just what you leave on GMail longer than 6 months) on a whim without suspicion, they'll be able to come after all of their opposition.

"Oh no, they'll never do that," or, "oh, that'll never happen to ME." Lots of Jews said stuff like that in the 30's.

Just wait.

But There Was a Third Option on the Poll

[eldavojohn]

I didn't want either of the two running to win.

From the survey details they had three target answers:

"Mitt Romney / Paul Ryan, the Republicans" or "Barack Obama / Joe Biden, the Democrats" or "Third party candidate / Undecided"

It sounds like you would have answered "Third party candidate / Undecided"

This is part of the reason that the one-party system has a stranglehold on America because it craftily marginalizes decenters.

Hey you leave my centers out of this :-) But in all seriousness, this is about an election poll ... you should have been out campaigning for Gary Johnson or whoever you wanted a long time ago. I think that campaign finances are the root of the problem that we should attack but apparently you are just upset that some Google Survey didn't allow everyone to write in specific names? An that's what's marginalizing third party candidates? A little late at that point.

Re:The country is dead

[Jon_S]

Our company had open enrollment for our medical benefits this month. For the first time in awhile, the costs went up SIGNIFICANTLY.

Irrelevant if it's lowered in one area and raised in another (and, so far, I don't see any examples of my taxes being any lower whatsoever in the last few years).

Well guess what. We had our open enrollment a few weeks ago too. Guess how much mine went up? 4%. And if you include the employer paid portion, overall it's up 6%. That's about on par with previous years. So if Obamacare is responsible for these SIGNIFICANT increases, how come I'm not seeing them? I'll give you the answer. It's one of 2 things. Either your employer/insurer is using Obamacare as a convenient excuse to take a piss on you and jack up rates, or your previous "coverage" was piss poor and now you've actually got to pay a little more to get coverage that actually covers stuff. The former is not the fault of Obamacare. The latter is, but I have a hard time seeing that as a bad thing.

Where I work (a very large national engineering firm), they made it clear that the only part of the increase in rates this year attributable to Obamacare was for some increased women's preventive services (yes, including contraception). There really aren't that many other aspects of Obamacare that impinge on employer-provided health insurance (requiring coverage for dependents up to 26 y.o. is another - that went into effect last year). That was how Obamacare was designed - it had minimal impact on people who are already getting their insurance through their employers. In fact, not going for a single payer system is why it is so unpopular among liberals.

Now there may be more next year but blaming an increase this year on Obamacare is nonsense. Premiums went up where I work, but that was almost entirely attributable to increase use of medical services over the last year, requiring an increase in premiums.

And as for the GP's claim of no lower taxes over the last few years, it must be great making over $250K a year. (Federal) taxes for everyone else when down.

Re:The country is dead

[Runaway1956]

NPR is a bit left of center. Anything not far-right can be called "liberal" by a die-hard republican.