If the US elections were held on Digg

The results of an analysis in the Social Media Trainer about what would happen if the US elections were held on the social news site Digg.

clipped from socialmediatrader.com What Would Happen If The US Elections Were Held On Digg? With the mainstream media beginning to recognise the importance of social media to the candidates involved, we decided to analyse the front-page stories from the 2008 U.S Elections category to find out what the results would be if the US elections were held on Digg. Average No. of Diggs Per Candidate Total No, of Comments Per Candidate Total No. of Positive/Neutral/Negative Articles Per Candidate Total No. of Diggs Per Party Total No. of Positive/ Neutral/ Negative Stories Per Party Total Number of Comments Per Party

Presidential Candidate Gadget

Presidential Candidates Stock Value

On the Gadgets directory blog we find a gadget to put on an iGoogle page or to embed in a web page which judges the presidential candidates as stock values:

Gadgets Directory: Presidential Candidate Gadget

Elections -- Primary Questions: Economy (video)

CBS News poll: 38 percent of voters say that the ailing economy is their number one concern

Katie Couric asks the 2008 presidential candidates how they would fix it.

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The Decoy Effect and the Elections

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What the decoy effect basically shows is that when people cannot decide between two front-runners, they use the third candidate as a sort of measuring stick. If one front-runner looks much better than the third candidate, people gravitate toward that front-runner. Third candidates, in other words, can make a complicated decision feel simple.

Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog » The Decoy Effect

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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When the asymmetrically dominated option is present, a higher
percentage of consumers will prefer the dominating option than when theasymmetrically dominated option is absent. The asymmetrically dominated option is therefore a decoy serving to increase preference for the dominating option. The decoy effect is also an example of the violation of the independence of irrelevant alternatives axiom of decision theory.

Decoy effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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InterviewsMeasuring
'the Decoy Effect' in Political Races

Saturday, April 14, 2007 · The presence of a
third candidate in political races often has the unintended effect of
benefiting one or the other of the two front runners.

NPR: Measuring 'the Decoy Effect' in Political Races

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The Decoy Effect, or How to Win an Election

By Shankar Vedantam

Monday, April 2, 2007; Page A03

If Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ever took a break from fundraising to bone up on psychology, they might realize the need to talk up . . . John Edwards.

The same goes for front-runners John McCain and Rudy Giuliani in the race for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. They ought to be drawing attention to Mitt Romney, or to "Law and Order" star Fred Thompson, who could be running third in the race if he declared.

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VoteMatch -- Dutch US Elections Website

clipped from www.sunherald.com VoteMatch Goes for President VoteMatch (http://www.stemwijzer.nl) is back online in the Netherlands, starting today. Not for Dutch elections this time, but for the presidential race in the United States. For and in collaboration with Dutch public TV news and current affairs program Een Vandaag, the Institute for Public and Politics (IPP) has developed a special VoteMatch USA website (http://www.VoteMatchUSA.org). clipped from www.votematchusa.org VoteMatch USA 2008 clipped from eenvandaag.nl Welcome to the OneToday’s VoteMatch USA VoteMatch determines your political preference through statements from the largest democratic and republican candidates taking part in the preliminary US presidency elections. The statements Answer the statements by clicking on agree, disagree or don't know.You can add extra weight to any statements you find especially important. In a separate screen you can choose which candidates you would like to include in your result calculation. In the result screen you can see the candidate you agree with most.