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Feb. 11th, 2012 09:21 pmIn case this might be something you're interested in:
Last Monday, Gabriel Snyder at The Atlantic Wire started blogging the US Presidential election campaign.
("So what? I'm bored with that already, and it's only February.")
No, not that one. The 1912 US Presidential election campaign.
Trending topics include Teddy Roosevelt's refusal to confirm or deny that he's planning to run, the question of whether any of the third-party candidates have a chance to upset the two-party applecart, and allegations that the news media no longer report news and instead have become tools of moneyed special interests.
And polls, of course. Snyder notes: "Few American voters have phones in 1912 (according to the Census Bureau, there are 8.7 million telephones and a population of 95.5 million) but that doesn't mean there cannot be useless presidential polls."
The 1912 Project
Last Monday, Gabriel Snyder at The Atlantic Wire started blogging the US Presidential election campaign.
("So what? I'm bored with that already, and it's only February.")
No, not that one. The 1912 US Presidential election campaign.
Trending topics include Teddy Roosevelt's refusal to confirm or deny that he's planning to run, the question of whether any of the third-party candidates have a chance to upset the two-party applecart, and allegations that the news media no longer report news and instead have become tools of moneyed special interests.
And polls, of course. Snyder notes: "Few American voters have phones in 1912 (according to the Census Bureau, there are 8.7 million telephones and a population of 95.5 million) but that doesn't mean there cannot be useless presidential polls."
The 1912 Project
