Sunday, November 11, 2007

So washingtonpost.com has this really cool thing called "Issue Coverage Tracker." There are two columns, one for issues on the left and one with candidates on the right. When you scroll your mouse over specific issues some candidates pictures get larger, depending on how important that issue is to them. For example, when you scroll over health care Hillary Clinton's face gets larger than everyone else's. In a like way, when you scroll over a specific candidate the text of certain issues can get larger. For Tom Tancredo abortion is double the size of all the other issues. The bottom has a date range so you can select a time period for the issues and candidates.

You can also click on the candidate and you learn how many times a candidate mentions a specific issue. Did you know that John Edwards has mentioned globalization 8 times in the month of November? Well, know you do.

This is mainly just fun to play with. It's very aesthetically pleasing.

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