Yahoo already has a 2008 election site with deep content on the candidates and issues. But digging through all that content to find relevant stats comparing the candidates can take awhile.
This afternoon the Elections team launched a new part of the site, called Dashboard, which contains basic polling and funding stats for each candidate in one easy to read screen.
Each candidate is listed, Democrats on the left and Republicans on the right. Next to each candidate’s picture are four basic stats:
- recent polling results, based on aggregated poll averages from Real Clear Politics
- “buzz” which shows the relative popularity based solely on Yahoo search queries
- prediction market, which shows the likelihood of a candidate to win based on real world, real money bets placed at Intrade, an Irish company
- total money raised for each candidate
Comparing the basic stats is fascinating. Ron Paul, for example, is only polling 4% versus other Republican candidates, but he has a whopping 37% relative to other candidates in searches. The prediction markets, though, are probably the most accurate data when it comes to predicting the actual winner of each primary. Hillary Clinton shows a current 61.3% likelihood of winning, even though she is only polling at 43%. When it comes to predictions, I’ll be watching the people betting real money vs. poll results.
Users can also click and see the data on a state-by-state basis, and see other demographic data. Click on any candidate and a pop up window appears with more detailed information (see screen shot below).
For people watching the elections, Yahoo’s election site, along with new startup Political Base (see our October coverage), are excellent resources. Of course, if you just can’t be bothered with following the news, this site will tell you who to vote for.
If you’re wondering why Yahoo, Political Base and lots of other companies are being so aggressive in rolling out election-based content sites, here’s why: a record $1 billion or more will be spent this year by the various campaigns in selling their candidates. Everyone wants their share of that huge cash pie.
Paul and Kucinich are both on the second page. F*ck that.
Yahoo! News (and affiliated projects) are the dark horse of the online information world. My company does considerable brand research and Yahoo! News tops the index time after time after time. Too bad most media companies don’t yet see them as a threat.
pretty useless site…it tells you nothing about the candidates except for 1 sentence. Oh and of course it tells you the all important poll data…you know the one that had Kerry at 3% in Iowa just a week before he won that state.
Useless
U are LAME. what other sites show the prcent of voters?
i don’t know andrew…for people who follow politics (like me) this seems pretty good. and of course it’s in one sentence – it’s data. i haven’t seen this collection of information anywhere so it’s probably something i can use.
oh btw you really show your political ignorance by claiming kerry was polling at only 3% in iowa the week before the iowa caucus. you are useless.
Andrew – yeah, that’s what the rest of the Yahoo Elections site is for. See first link above.
“Yahoo! News (and affiliated projects) are the dark horse of the online information world”
no dark horse at all, ynews has been the #1 news site for years, and it has a considerable lead over the #2 site
On some of the other gambling sites such as gambling911 and sportsbook, Ron Paul is given great odds to win the nomination. They are even betting about how much money he will raise this Sunday for the TeaParty07.
felt awkward to finally see a post about yahoo, been so long, looks really nice i like it. finally yahoo did something new.
Didn’t really follow Democrats in 2004, but I def heard that Kerry was doing 3-4% just a couple of weeks before the Iowa caucuses.
As far as the rest, if you want to see funding data, you would go to opensecrets…because total funds raised is pretty pointless, the much more important number is quarter by quarter, because that way you can see how the candidates are doing during that particular time.(i.e. this quarter Ron Paul will probably beat everyone and raise something like 20mm, (there is a big grassroots fund raising day planned for this Sunday, Dec 16th, and Rudy will probably have his lowest quarter yet because of the whole Keric and having his mistress get free security paid by the tax payers, yet on Yahoo, it’ll look like Rudy is doing better overall fundraising wise)
And personally the site should show all candidates on one page, instead of dividing people up into Leaders/”Other candidates”, and when sorting it should let you sort between the whole list, and not just between the leaders.
If anybody is interested I have the domain election2012.org
http://www.whoi...012&tld=org
It’s a little early, but what the hay. I’m leaving in a few months and everything must go!
Yahoo?
“When it comes to predictions, I’ll be watching the people betting real money vs. poll results.”
Are you talking about the “Money Raised” data? I’ll assume your kidding. This surely is not a measure of political strength…I hope. Look how each candidate is raising funding. I have the deepest respect for Barack Obama, Ron Paul, John Edwards & John McCain simply because of how they’ve handled campaign finance. It’s interesting to see that these candidates are a mix of republicans and democrats.
@JP
I’m not sure the exact poll numbers, but John Kerry indeed trailing by a considerable margin only a few weeks before the primaries. I think you were a little harsh on Andrew, if you’re not going to support your argument. He was basing his data on a recollection…
http://fundrace...ingtonpost.com/
Here you can see who top celebs are picking. Yahoo I guess doesn’t have this yet.
Apparently Bill Gates is going with Barack Obama.
fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?type=name&lname=gates&fname=william&search=Search
http://fundrace...p;search=Search
Ha, Mike didn’t contribute to anyone. I’m not surprised. Neither did I.
Only in America will you see a political candidate being described with the race and color of his parents, as Barack Obama is described on Yahoo. Then they (American government) dare to change things in other parts of the world!?
What a bunch of crap!
Don’t believe this crap!
Stop bragging about your “good” qualities.
Since this site will tell whom to vote for, political parties might be keeping watch on this for promoting their leader.
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
This really makes me sick. Just looking at how much money Hillary, Obama, Giuliani, and McCain all received in campaign donations is disturbing. 90 million dollars???? How can this happen in America? Why would anyone vote for any of those bought and paid for politician? That is disgusting. I’m so proud for Ron Paul! He hasn’t taken a dime from special interest groups and lobbyist. Shame on you Hillary, Giuliani, McCain, Thompson, Obama, Edwards, Biden…. YOU MAKE ME SICK!!!!
What use is a dashboard, if the meters don’t work?
This is like those model cars with the painted dashboards to look realistic but which are (obviously) meaningless.
First, the arrows are very confusing. It looks like the candidates are up 43% or down 25%.
They should list a smaller number next to the arrow indicating how much their number has shifted, and only if it’s more than the margin of error. For example, with Biden and Richardson at 3%, do the up down arrows have any meaning.
Very interesting, this will give each voter basic idea on who’s who and who’s a no no!
Nhick
http://www.itrush.com
Interesting, we built a similar dashboard using the digg api and the users data, see it here http://merhl.co...diggCandidates/
@Jason Christian:
You need to get your facts straight. I agree with you on the issue of Ron Paul. However, you singled out many others who are following the same campaign financing model.
As pointed out earlier Barack Obama, John McCain, John Edwards & Ron Paul all have been campaigning without PAC’s or Lobbyist handouts.
Show all these candidates some respect!
Oh…I left out Dennis Kucinich!
Have the Paulites taken over the Interwebs yet?
@ Grayson:
No, there’s at least one Barackian still left on the information super highway.
Where are the 3rd parties!? When will you people learn the Democrats and the Republicans is what’s wrong with this government.
u r right they need the third parties
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Let’s see what that looks like 6 months from now.
I think it’s a great idea. Gives you a cursory overview of each candidate.
http://www.whatshottoday.com
i agree with #1…. those two guys are the only interesting story of election 2008…. the rest of the losers (”front runners”) leave me totally depressed about america in the world
Interesting idea.
@25: No, both of them have still got a long way to go before every blog, no matter how apolitical, is covered with “Ron Paul is the best! Ron Paul is the only real candidate! Ron Paul is Jesus times Elvis times the iPod!”
The man probably has some good policies – not that that’s particularly hard when you’re up against people like Mike Huckabee who believe that there should be separate public toilets for AIDS sufferers – but the cultish behaviour of his supporters have made be completely uninterested in what they are.
It’s utter bullshit. Ron Paul currently has made over $18,000,000 this quarter alone!!! And he’s listed as having made an overall 8 mil? Poll data is completely inaccurate…
Ron Paul is on the SECOND PAGE? Utter biased BS. He is the LEADER in terms of cash $$. And he’s rising every quarter…Again, he is the GOP’s Financial Leader in fundraising…Money means Support. Other candidates get all this free media attention…yet still can’t make as much as Dr. Paul.
Paul lost. =D XD OBAMA WILL WIN HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!1!!!1!1
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1!!!111!!111 =D
for mike gravel, he has -2700$!!! ha! and he is actually TRYING to become pres.?!?1?!
@#25
Wouldn’t you joining his support base balance those bad cultist supporters out? After all, what you are doing is stereotyping a group of people. I like Ron Paul but I am not going to bend over backwards for him. I’ll just support him against other clows like Hillary and Giuliani. I think you should do the same if you believe in his message.
Ron Paul has less of a chance of winning the ‘Pub nomination than I do of winning the Mega-Millions lottery Tuesday night (about 175,000,000 to 1). You guys don’t understand how politics works in the good ‘ol USA and are just throwing your money away.
What a lame property.
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