Very Cool

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by: andgarden @ Mon Mar 14, 2011 at 15:40:49 PM UTC

cool

Keep up the good work, Dave.

41, Ind, CA-05

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by: sacman701 @ Mon Mar 14, 2011 at 15:41:02 PM UTC

I chipped in $5

Can't really afford much, I've been out of work since the beginning of the year, but I figure $5 wouldn't hurt.

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by: Johnny Longtorso @ Mon Mar 14, 2011 at 16:42:18 PM UTC

Thanks Johnny

Awesome job covering the special elections!

And good luck with the job hunting.

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by: dgb @ Mon Mar 14, 2011 at 17:37:59 PM UTC

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MD Data

Thanks for getting the actual Obama numbers up so that I don't feel like the numbers are tainted - however, I see the Dem/Rep averages still exclude third parties - is there any way to include them for that as well?

Also, we need to fix that one precinct in Bowleys Quarters (SE Baltimore County) that didn't have Obama numbers and said 100% McCain. You temporarily changed it to 0% for both, but they both got something there.

As for absentee ballots, I found a way to allocate them, but given that the data has been outsourced to that professor, (and given that I don't know which elections are included in the 2006-2010 average), I'm not sure if you really want to hear about it (although it's worth noting that Obama increased his spread in the state by 2 points with just absentee votes.

21, Male, Democrat, MD-02 (home/registered), MD-05 (college)

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by: Rupper @ Mon Mar 14, 2011 at 18:18:10 PM UTC

Congratulations, your project deserve it

You are doing very good and fast work.

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by: abgin @ Mon Mar 14, 2011 at 19:57:29 PM UTC

Thanks for the Arizona numbers!

Now that my new NEW Nevada map is finished (and will be posted here on SSP soon), my next project will be redistricting there. Thanks for giving me a chance to actually keep up with all the chatter I hear from Carson City and see for myself what they're thinking and talking about.

And as soon as I get some spare change, I'll send it your way. :-)

Yes, Virginia, there ARE progressives in Nevada!
24, gay male, Democrat, NV-03 (or 04?)

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by: atdleft @ Mon Mar 14, 2011 at 20:11:07 PM UTC

Arizona Partisan Data

Awesome work as always in adding new features and congratulations on the new partnership.

I've done a lot of work with voting districts in Arizona (such as calculating State Legislature Districts by 2008 Presidential votes and Congressional Districts by 2010 Gubernatorial votes), and now that Arizona finally has voting districts in the DRA, it might be possible for me to use all the data I have to add partisan data for the state. However, I'm rather swamped right now with working full time and going to grad school full-ish time, so the project would probably take quite a while. You've mentioned that you're working with a group of professors to get more data into the app. Are they working on Arizona?

22, Democrat, AZ-01
Peace. Love. Gabby.

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by: Nico @ Mon Mar 14, 2011 at 20:45:56 PM UTC

Oregon?

still nothing on Oregon dave?

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by: ramacher @ Mon Mar 14, 2011 at 23:05:12 PM UTC

That's correct.

Only one so far that has no voting districts; only block groups.

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by: dgb @ Mon Mar 14, 2011 at 23:12:45 PM UTC

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I want to have your babies, Dave

But since that's biologically impossible, I think I'm just gonna make one of those tax-deductible contribution thingies...

More seriously, you've given me a reason to like Silverlight, and done an incredible job making your eponymous app incredibly informative, easy-to-use and just all-around-awesome. Keep up the awesomeness!

Kansan by birth, Californian by choice, and Gay by the grace of God.

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by: arealmlc @ Tue Mar 15, 2011 at 05:20:09 AM UTC

Thank you

Silverlight, in spite of some annoying restrictions, is a nice environment to work in and it's reasonably fast. It's allowed me to do a lot fairly quickly. Maybe HTML5 will become the best framework for this kind of stuff; who knows.

I think I can make it faster, too, but have to try some experiments.

Thanks.

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by: dgb @ Tue Mar 15, 2011 at 16:45:25 PM UTC

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It's worth saying

that I haven't thought about version 1 in a while. V 2 is now an improvement in every way. Now about that partisan data. . . ;)

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by: andgarden @ Tue Mar 15, 2011 at 17:48:38 PM UTC

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