During the passage of the most recent stimulus bill there was much debate over if the government spending even has the possibility of being effective.  This debate continues today, largely along partisan lines, so I was curious if there is any empirical evidence to support the ...

Mark Newman from Physics department at the University of Michigan took the time to create some interesting visualizations of the election data.  The goal was to provide a  graphic that better reflects the actual vote in the country.  Here are a couple examples below, for the rest visit his site ...

The site http://show.mappingworlds.com/ has put together some great visualizations of information.  They take statistics such as population, GDP, illiteracy, cause of death (AIDS), legal abortions measured by country and re size the country to reflect that number.  It is both a cool and effective way to present data, some ...

Below are some excerpts from the best candidate comparision site I have yet to see.  This is just a little bit of what you can find on the site, I encourage everbody to check it out.  Thank you LaterSkater for sending this site to me. Who is winning The presidential election is decided ...

First I want to recognize Chris for all of the research he put into this post, thank you. I also want to thank LaterSkater for your forwards and and a preemptive thank you for helping me not to assault the English language with my grammar. I think there are a ...

The Republican and Democratic parties each have a brand that helps to define what people believe they represent.  One of the strong Republican brand attributes is the notion that ...

A lot has been said about what Sarah Palin has or has not done, some of it conflicting.  Personally I wanted a clear picture and thought others might as well.  I used Wikipedia as a jumping off point for my research, read through several pages of sources and sifted through ...

After doing the analysis of experience I was curious if age has an impact on Presidential performance.  An explanation of how the Presidents were ranked can be found on the "Does Experience Really Matter" post.  The .xls I used for the analysis is available at the bottom of the post ...

I think there is more confusion around the candidate’s proposed tax plans than any other issue in the election. The confusion stems from the Republican brand of being the party of lower taxes, a poor job by Democrats and the media of presenting the facts and misrepresentations by Republicans. Below is ...