Elections Blog

Several members of the Atlas community have suggested providing a feature for members to share their endorsements of candidates for the 2006 Senatorial and Gubernatorial contests. This feature has now been added to the Atlas (Links: Gubernatorial Endorsements and Senatorial Endorsements). A compiled map on the endorsements home …

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Two new sections are now available on the Atlas - Gubernatorial Election Polls for 2006 and Senatorial Election Polls for 2006. The new polling sections include the ability to view individual polls in detail as well as summary pages comparing recent polls by state and by polling agency. The …

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The 2004 Presidential Predictions turned out to be a very popular Atlas site feature - with almost 2,000 unique entries (and over 12,000 total version entries). The compiled map showed the correct winner of every state - with the exception of Ohio - which missed being called by merely …

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Total Ballots Cast are figures published by most election agencies that show the total number of people having cast ballots. Typically, a number of these ballots for any given contest (e.g. President) are invalid - either the voter decided not to choose a candidate for President (called a “blank” …

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