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Show HN: Correlation between number of facebook likes and winner of an election
8 points by timmaah on Oct 16, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
A quick weekend side project. I am curious if the like count of a candidate for office can predict if they will win. For the past month or so I have been tracking the likes of several campaigns. Today I put a prettier face on it.

http://cmpgns.net/

After the election I will do a quick analysis of the races and see if anything interesting turns up. If anyone adds a candidate I'm missing, I'll go in and add their opponent



You need to work on the visual design.

I didn't have time to figure it out but its not clear if the percent is the 30-day change or the percent of relevant users that liked a certain candidate.

Some of your calculations are off. See Nancy Pelosi.

That being said, old voters have the highest turnout rate and they will be underrepresented here. But I like seeing new innovation in political web apps.



Very cool.




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