Note from April 8, 2015. I spent several days with SurveyMonkey before discovering and falling in awe wwih SurveyGizmo. Unfortunately, Gizmo doesn’t have Monekey’s very nice question element styling feature, which I was using to put candidate pictures in the sortable list object. But so many other features are so good, the scales tip heavily.…
Category: Candidates
Candidates, Twitter Primary
Twitter Primary Prelims
by Flywheel •
This list of prospective major-party candidates for the 2016 Presidential race includes Barack Obama and Mitt Romney for comparative purposes. Some have already made public announcements of “exploratory” activity. Many have traveled to Iowa and New Hampshire, and committed lots of time to fundraising. Others are the subject of active speculation by journalists or energetic draft movements.…
Candidates, Twitter Primary
Hillary Clinton’s Traction on Twitter
by Flywheel •
In the next day or so I’ll be publishing a table that compares the activity of major-party candidates on Twitter. What leaps out in a big way is Hillary Clinton’s very sparing use of the service. That behavior, combined with a huge number of followers, gives remarkable traction to her participation. It’s become a story in itself. Caitlin…
Candidates, Money Primary
Visualizing the Money Primary
by Flywheel •
The New York Times (via @UpshotNY) has an article with some charts comparing the ideological underpinnings of the 2012 and 2016 Democratic and Republican fields. It’s largely a speculation about how much latitude candidates have if they want to jockey between left and right. Hillary Clinton’s prospects get featured attention. The analysis hinges on a scoring formula tabulated by CrowdPac which makes a…