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Type of site | Opinion poll analysis, blog |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Andrew S. Tanenbaum |
| Created by | Andrew S. Tanenbaum |
| URL | www |
| Registration | None |
| Launched | May 24, 2004 (as Electoral Vote Predictor) |
Electoral-vote.com is a website created by computer scientist Andrew S. Tanenbaum. The site's primary content was originally poll analysis to project election outcomes. Since the 2016 elections, the site also has featured daily commentary on political news stories.
The site was created during the lead-up to the 2004 U.S. Presidential election to predict the winner. The site tries to improve on national polls usually reported in the media, by instead analyzing the most recent polls on the state level, thus simulating the process by which Electoral College votes are determined in the actual election. Updated throughout the campaign, visitors can see who is "ahead" at any time.[1]
On weekends the site focuses more on interacting with readers, with Tanenbaum and co-author Christopher Bates answering reader questions on Saturdays and posting a mailbag of reader letters on Sundays.
Political commentators, such as Chris Weigant,[2] have noted the helpfulness of the website in aggregating polls state by state in order to predict the outcomes of elections.
- ^ "Poll crazy". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
- ^ Weigant, Chris (26 October 2020). "Electoral Math -- The Final Stretch". ChrisWeigant.com. Retrieved 2 August 2022.