Polling Videos

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In your weekly wrap-up, Will and Rob preview the SCOTUS hearings next week, introduce the "New GM", recap the week's policy progress (or lack thereof), and cover the poll numbers that Mitt Romney probably won't believe.

In your weekly wrap-up, Will and Rob preview the SCOTUS hearings next week, introduce the "New GM", recap the week's policy progress (or lack thereof), and cover the poll numbers that Mitt Romney probably won't believe.

Lunch 'n Learn presentation: How we experience political races is dominated by opinion polls. Polling data can be confusing because of their sheer number. In 2008, hundreds of polls were released during the Presidential campaign. Is there a way to cut through the resulting noise? Four years ago Dr. Wang devised a statistical approach to analyze state polls to get a single, easy-to-understand snapshot of the race, viewed from the point of view of the Electoral College. In 2008, this approach made near-perfect predictions of the electoral vote count as well as Senate and House outcomes. Meta-analysis of polls also allowed the horserace to be tracked with high accuracy. Presidential races are stable most of the time, with game-changing events happening only once a month on average. Dr. Wang will show which events helped Barack Obama and John McCain - and which did not. Bio: Sam Wang is an Associate Professor in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and the Department of Molecular Biology. He has published fifty papers in neuroscience, including many contributions to the statistical analysis of complex data. He has received young investigator awards from the W.M. Keck Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. Before coming to Princeton he worked at Bell Labs and spent a year as a member of Congressional staff. He is a co-author of the award-winning bestseller "Welcome To Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How To Drive." He lives with his wife and daughter in Princeton, NJ. More information is available at http://blogs.princeton.edu/itsacademic/2009/02/sam_wang_election_predictions_and_more.html.

http://www.fsrn.org/ at Free Speech Radio News Mumia addresses Ralph Nader's statement that Barack Obama has been "talking white" in an interview to the Rocky Mountain News. http://digg.com/users/RalphNader08 (add!) http://www.myspace.com/votenader08 http://www.myspace.com/ralphnaderin2008 http://www.freemumia.org

Election day in Denver in 2006 saw lines late into the night, and an uncountable number simply walking away from the polls. A lot of things have been changed to try and address that, including going back to systems less dependent on computerized systems. And it's estimated that 35% of Coloradans have already voted by mail or early vote. But the ballot in Colorado is long this year. Seriously long. It took me about 45 minutes to vote it, and I skipped the judges. I don't know how many minutes election officials here figured people would need when they decided how many voting booths needed to be where. I'm guessing it wasn't 45. The rumor is this is the longest ballot in the country. We'll be keeping an eye on things on election day to see how the system handles such a ginourmous ballot. Tune in to theuptake.org. **http://the-uptake.groups.theuptake.org/en/videogalleryView/id/1168/

Judy Woodruff, of PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, calls on voters to film their voting experience as part of PBS and YouTube's Video Your Vote effort. Whether it's a video shot at the polls on Election Day, an account of your early voting experience, or you filming yourself filling out an absentee ballot -- upload it to http://youtube.com/videoyourvote. +++ Find out more at: http://youtube.com/videoyourvote

This week on Outside The Inbox: Video Edition, mobileStorm CEO Jared Reitzin calls out U.S. online users for not generating content like they do in other countries; and notes how the American Idol generation would rather vote for president the way they do their favorite crooners.

For those planning to vote in the Michigan Primary Election this Tuesday, there are a few changes that are important to keep in mind. We have more details about the changes.