Political Games Forever

If you want to re-create the exact movements of all the candidates in the actual election, using a political game like President Forever 2008 + Primaries, this neat tool from the Washington Post’s politics section is very useful:

Washington Post’s Campaign Tracker

Here’s a screen capture of part of the Campaign Tracker:

By clicking the “Previous Day” and “Next Day” links on the tool, you can get political-event-by-political-event tracking for all the major candidates from both parties for the 2008 US Presidential election. It gets even better - you can click the “2007″ link just below “Campaign Tracker” (or the “Date” link to the right of “Campaign Tracker”) and it will show you a calendar with all political events from January 2007 all the way to (scheduled) December 2007. It even lists which candidates ‘Rested’, to use the President Forever game term.

There’s more. Lots more. Continued …

You can browse political events by “Candidate,” for example, and then look easily at how often a candidate has gone to any given state. Here, for example, is an image of the map with Mitt Romney’s movements:

Quite quickly, you can see that he’s had 130 events in Iowa (second place is New Hampshire with 85), and by clicking on the “Most Recent Visit” tab you can also see that he went to both of those states within the last week. You can even see how much he raised by state in the most important political game - the money game - for the 3Q by clicking the “Money Raised” tab. Neat.

There are lots here for any political geek to play around with. Have fun!

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