Burrowowl

I’m never one to turn down an opinion poll via phone or postal mail. Oh, I’ll decline to participate in silly weblog polls, but I am often of the opinion that five minutes spent answering a couple of questions about how you feel about public transit is probably a heck of a lot more influential than the ballots I cast every June and November. As a part of a smaller samplings, my opinions get amplified, whereas in a state with 34,000,000 people can kinda down me out a bit.

Pollster.com has spent some time sitting in my list of links over there to your left, but it’s a carefully-collected and calibrated resource aimed at serious people. I wanted something automated. Something web 1.9. Something with the cojones to just scrape together some raw data and cook it down into a sanitary, easily-digested format. Something that blindly aggregates other people’s RSS feeds. Today I found it in Perspctv.com.

Shall we play a game of “let’s make some numbers say anything we want them to?” I love that game. Let’s start with “McCain is a media darling getting disproportionate news network news coverage compared to his polling numbers.” Your turn.