Not being a US citizen, I'm always quite stunned by what I perceive as an obsession with polling results. Especially when fundamental flaws in the US voting system (see, for example, <a href="http://www.gregpalast.com/latinos-too-lazy-to-vote/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gregpalast.com/latinos-too-lazy-to-vote/</a>) seem to get widely ignored.<p>Sites like <a href="http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/" rel="nofollow">http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/</a> may be great in bringing insightful reflections on statistics to a larger audience, but by focusing exclusively on the maths of elections, they might actually reinforce this ignorance towards actual political issues.
Yikes. Exactly what we need; more people focused on polls that all say the same thing--the election is close. Knowing that Gallup says it's 51-49 one way or Rasmussen says it's 51-49 the other way contributes exactly nothing to the world.
Developer here. I helped build this site after noticing I was checking presidential polls like 12 times a day and really wanted a quick disposable tool for the next 2 weeks to get them as soon as they are released.<p>On Nov 6th, we'll shut the site down and permanently delete the entire list.<p>Hope you find it useful!
Here's a slightly OT question, for politically inclined folks:<p>How likely would you be to look at a site that on election day scrapes election results as they come in from various swing states, and extrapolates the state result by projecting each county individually from already reported precincts?<p>Obvious some assumptions about precinct homogeneity and turnout implicit in that, but it'd provide at least some value over the raw results ("OMG with 5% of the vote in, Obama's leading by 20 points in Ohio!")
Living in an "important swing state" at the moment, the last thing I need is more factoids about the presidential race. Every form of media is completely saturated with the same talking points, and it is quite exhausting. It would be nice to hear more about the senate, house and state elections.
I don't think I've seen any media coverage/ads for any election besides the presidential race.
Interesting. I don't want every poll, but I would like to be notified when Real Clear and 538 are updated. Maybe with a tolerance band when they break out of a certain range.