Ranked Vote Poll

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Tuesday February 11, 2020 · 9:59 AM PST

2020/02/11 · 09:59

I’m running a ranked-vote poll of the candidates today:
betterpolls.com/…

I run betterpolls.com, the data isn’t going anywhere nefarious, I just want to run a better tool for us understanding ourselves and what we think about these people in depth.

Poll

81 votes Show Results

Polling should be

81 votes Vote Now!

Polling should be

Ranked

63 votes

Rated

2 votes

Pick-One

10 votes

Served cold

6 votes

Rank the 2020 Dem Pres contenders

bolson

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Tuesday August 20, 2019 · 5:10 AM PDT

2019/08/20 · 05:10

teaser fragment of a ranked choice poll about the 2020 Presidential candidates

I want to know what we think about the 2020 Democratic Presidential hopefuls beyond picking one favorite. Rank your top 3 or top 5 or rank all of them if you want.

betterpolls.com/…

It requires a login from either Google or Facebook as a first pass at limiting ballot box stuffing. Sorry if this irks your sense of privacy. I wrote the software and run the site and promise not to do anything improper with your login. Also the vote record is disconnected from the user record behind the scenes so the vote is private even from me.

Let me know any feedback! Bugs in some browser? Feature requests? Here or tweet @boooolson

Poll

56 votes Show Results

I like polls

56 votes Vote Now!

I like polls

ranked choice polls are better

44 votes

pick-one polls are enough

5 votes

rating with error bars would be even better!

7 votes

Impartial Redistricting Maps Made

bolson

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Saturday May 14, 2011 · 10:37 AM PDT

2011/05/14 · 10:37

I've run my impartial compactness based redistricting solver and gotten results for almost all the state's congressional and state legislature delegations.
http://bdistricting.com/...
I hope these will be a resource to people as alternatives to the gerrymandered nonsense proposed by the powers that be.

Redistricting: 142 maps in 2011

bolson

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Tuesday March 02, 2010 · 11:31 AM PST

2010/03/02 · 11:31

The Census bureau is promising redistricting data from the 2010 census by March, 2011.

My goal is to produce 142 reasonable district maps within one month of that data release.
43 Congressional districts maps (AK, DE, MT, ND, SD, VT, WY have only 1 district right now).
99 State legislature district maps (Nebraska only has one).

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24 votes Show Results

I want to

24 votes Vote Now!

I want to

be an activist/advocate for fair redistricting

3 votes

donate computer time

2 votes

tinker with maps by hand

4 votes

eat pie

14 votes

National Primary Popular Vote So-Far

bolson

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Wednesday February 06, 2008 · 8:34 AM PST

2008/02/06 · 08:34

I've been scouring news sites and secrataries of states sites for the last hour, and have updated my National Primary/Caucus Popular Vote spreadsheet.

A huge number of people voted yesterday. 15,113,239 people for 92.86% of the popular vote so far. Including that and the previous votes:
Obama: 7,831,327 (48.12%)
Clinton: 7,719,028 (47.43%)
Edwards: 626,116 (3.85%)

bolson

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Friday February 01, 2008 · 6:23 PM PST

2008/02/01 · 18:23

One last difference I'd like to demonstrate between Obama and Clinton. Normally I'm a policy wonk, but this is all about style. And besides, when was the last time we had a serious debate about policy? They tried a little on a recent CNN debate, but outside of that they're all campaigning on style and identity and likeability and emotions. So, in case you haven't seen them, the Clinton ad and the Obama ad I've been seeing on major network TV lately (helpfully posted to youtube by the campaigns themselves):

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73 votes Show Results

Pie?

73 votes Vote Now!

Pie?

Hillary's ad is fine, people need to be shocked.

2 votes

Hillary's ad is bad. Booo.

18 votes

Obama's ad is fluffy and meaningless.

7 votes

Obama's ad is the kind of rallying cry we need.

37 votes

Both candidates should pledge to support Pie.

9 votes

45% of primary popular vote was yesterday

bolson

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Sunday January 27, 2008 · 8:39 AM PST

2008/01/27 · 08:39

Yesterday's South Carolina primary vote had 45% of the voting population so far. More than Iowa and New Hampshire combined. I'm keeping a tally of a tally of the total national popular vote for the primaries.

Results so far (IA+NH+NV+SC): Obama 46.36%, Clinton 32.68%, Edwards 18.74%

bolson

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Wednesday January 16, 2008 · 6:55 AM PST

2008/01/16 · 06:55

Denying a Qualified Candidate from a Debate is a Contribution to those Included

I'm pretty sure this should be a violation of campaign finance laws. I'm sure a lot of people watched last night's MSNBC infomercial for Clinton, Obama and Edwards. MSNBC will claim that it was a 'debate' and frame it as an event showing off what a Free Press can do to facilitate our Democracy. But it wasn't. It was an in-kind donation of services to the campaigns of Clinton, Obama and Edwards. It was a donation to them because it excluded candidates fully qualified to get on the ballot and get votes.

MSNBC does not determine who a candidate is. We already have ballot access laws (maybe too restrictive even) and they have determined that there are more than 3 candidates. They excluded (and several other 'debates'/gifts-to-approved-candidates have also excluded) my personal favorite, Dennis Kucinich.

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87 votes Show Results

Are these 'debates' breaking the law?

87 votes Vote Now!

Are these 'debates' breaking the law?

Yes

21 votes

44 votes

kinda

8 votes

the law should be changed

10 votes

Pie

4 votes

Obama Still Ahead In Total Popular Vote

bolson

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Wednesday January 09, 2008 · 8:33 AM PST

2008/01/09 · 08:33

I'm cranky about the media narrative out of New Hampshire. Hillary, Obama, and to a lesser degree Edwards all won. They all passed the threshold to get delegates and made respectable showings. Also, in my fanciful world of a single day national primary, we would be looking the national popular vote. So, here it is so far (I'll try to keep that page updated).

In short: Obama 37%, Clinton 35%, Edwards 23%, Richardson 3.5%, Kucinich 1%, Biden, Dodd and Gravel eat the roundoff. This with 515000 votes cast, and we should expect several million before the primaries are over.

bolson

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Friday January 04, 2008 · 9:38 AM PST

2008/01/04 · 09:38

Saying "Obama won" is far too simplistic, to the point of being misleading. "Obama came in first" is more accurate, but really it was nearly a three-way-tie and Obama came in a little bit ahead of Edwards and Clinton.

My point is it's not over. If you say "Obama won", then he has conquered, is victorious, and there's nothing more to say.

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28 votes Show Results

So?

28 votes Vote Now!

So?

Reasonable criticism

9 votes

Excessive nitpicking

13 votes

Pie

6 votes

Frame IA, NH as Irrelevant

bolson

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Wednesday January 02, 2008 · 10:53 AM PST

2008/01/02 · 10:53

Can we go ahead and declare the Iowa Caucus irrelevant? Ok, it's not really irrelevant, but nearly so, or should be. 100,000 people are voting, and they deserve their due, but no more! 100,000 people will vote January 3. Millions of people will vote Tuesday, February 5. So, let's say that the Iowa Caucus is worth about one twentieth of the new Super-Duper Tuesday primaries. The story on January 4 should be: Well, that was nice, and interesting, but the real show will be February 5; we'll have to wait and see what happens then.

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31 votes Show Results

So?

31 votes Vote Now!

So?

Right on!

13 votes

Eh.

4 votes

lame

6 votes

huh?

2 votes

Pie

6 votes

Toward Better Polling: Rate Them All

bolson

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Thursday November 29, 2007 · 4:49 PM PST

2007/11/29 · 16:49

Here it is, another poll about the Dem field for president:
http://betterpolls.com/...

But in this one you can rate them all on a —10 to 10 scale, and there are two write-in slots.

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31 votes Show Results

More Polls should be like this?

31 votes Vote Now!

More Polls should be like this?

I prefer rankings: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc

14 votes

Yes, just like this

9 votes

No, people should have to really pick just one

5 votes

I like pie

3 votes

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Ranked Vote Poll

Rank the 2020 Dem Pres contenders

Impartial Redistricting Maps Made

Redistricting: 142 maps in 2011

National Primary Popular Vote So-Far

Hillary's FEAR vs Obama's HOPE

45% of primary popular vote was yesterday

MSNBC Donates to Clinton, Obama, Edwards

Obama Still Ahead In Total Popular Vote

Obama, Edwards, Clinton _all_ won

Frame IA, NH as Irrelevant

Toward Better Polling: Rate Them All