Show HN: Who Should Be the President?

by jkarneges • 2 years ago

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jkarneges2• 2 years ago

Hi HN!

I made a presidential polling website with real-time electoral results. It requires semi-live participation and votes can be changed at any time. Only visitors from the USA can participate. Congressional district is determined by IP address.

The idea is to enable a coordinated voting process, where selections are non-binding and negotiable rather than blindly cast once. Kind of like a presidential caucus, but national and over the Internet.

The infra is Fastly & DigitalOcean. Backend is a Django service running on DO App Platform with Postgres. Fastly is used for edge logic, captcha, and pushing updates to the page (Fanout). In theory it should be able to handle millions of participants.

Bostonian• 2 years ago

The current vote percentages at your site, Harris/Trump/Stein 63/18/18, suggests that your sample so far is quite unrepresentative. Is there a reason to expect that to change?

bediger4000• 2 years ago

Why do you assume this is unrepresentative? Polling has gotten increasingly weird since 2004.

AnimalMuppet• 2 years ago

I think polling has gotten weird because 20-somethings (whatever the correct term is for that generation) don't answer the phone for numbers they don't know. Polling is blind to a whole generation, a generation that can vote in greater and greater numbers. That means that the difference between polls and reality is growing over time.

As far as this poll goes, it's a self-selected sample, which has its own problems.

jkarneges2• 2 years ago

Needs more participants. :) If there were thousands of votes I expect the percentages would align with traditional polling, although if they didn't that would be super interesting.

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