Show HN: Get notified when new presidential polls are released
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Re: Show HN: Get notified when new presidential polls are released
#2Developer here. I helped build this site after noticing I was checking presidential polls like 12 times a day and really wanted a quick disposable tool for the next 2 weeks to get them as soon as they are released.
On Nov 6th, we'll shut the site down and permanently delete the entire list.
Hope you find it useful!
Re: Show HN: Get notified when new presidential polls are released
#3Can I see them without getting mail, but by RSS for example?
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#4Not being a US citizen, I'm always quite stunned by what I perceive as an obsession with polling results. Especially when fundamental flaws in the US voting system (see, for example, http://www.gregpalast.com/latinos-too-lazy-to-vote/) seem to get widely ignored.
Sites like http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/ may be great in bringing insightful reflections on statistics to a larger audience, but by focusing exclusively on the maths of elections, they might actually reinforce this ignorance towards actual political issues.
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#5Not being a US citizen, I'm always quite stunned by what I perceive as an obsession with polling results. Especially when fundamental flaws in the US voting system (see, for example, http://www.gregpalast.com/latinos-too-lazy-to-vote/ ) seem to get widely ignored. Sites like http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/ may be great in bringing insightful reflections on statistics to a larger audience, but by focusing ex…
I always wonder what kind of influence polls have on voters.
A lot of people probably won't bother voting if their state is a perceived landslide.
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#6Interesting. I don't want every poll, but I would like to be notified when Real Clear and 538 are updated. Maybe with a tolerance band when they break out of a certain range.
Re: Show HN: Get notified when new presidential polls are released
#7Not being a US citizen, I'm always quite stunned by what I perceive as an obsession with polling results. Especially when fundamental flaws in the US voting system (see, for example, http://www.gregpalast.com/latinos-too-lazy-to-vote/ ) seem to get widely ignored. Sites like http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/ may be great in bringing insightful reflections on statistics to a larger audience, but by focusing ex…
The New Yorker is talking about this very subject today:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/10/da...
I read that article this morning and still signed up for pingpoll minutes later..
Re: Show HN: Get notified when new presidential polls are released
#8Not being a US citizen, I'm always quite stunned by what I perceive as an obsession with polling results. Especially when fundamental flaws in the US voting system (see, for example, http://www.gregpalast.com/latinos-too-lazy-to-vote/ ) seem to get widely ignored. Sites like http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/ may be great in bringing insightful reflections on statistics to a larger audience, but by focusing ex…
The New Yorker is talking about this very subject today: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/10/da... I read that article this morning and still signed up for pingpoll minutes later..
Thanks for sharing that link, good article.
Still, its main concern seems to be the predictive value of forecast models, given that "stuff happens" -- while I'm more concerned with the fact that the obsession with polling and forecasts coincides (hard to tell if it's a cause or an effect) with widespread ignorance when it comes to massively undemocratic features of the US voting system.
Re: Show HN: Get notified when new presidential polls are released
#9What is the source of polls this app is using?
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#10The site seems down at the moment