presidential election

QUIZ: The Ontario NDP is offering ‘change for the better’. They’re not the first. Match these campaign taglines to the leader and election.

A joint plan from former Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum to topple frontrunner Mitt Romney through a “unity ticket” failed because the pair couldn’t agree on who would get to be president.

The chairman of the Maine Republican Party is backtracking after comments he made alleging voter fraud by mysterious black voters in the state during the presidential election.

President Barack Obama, who is know for being stoic and even a little aloof at times, let his emotions show while thanking supporters on the morning he was re-elected.

In a post-election mistake, a draft of website designed in case Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romeny won on Tuesday night went live for a few moments, reports the Huffington Post.

Thomas Mulcair’s statement on the re-election of U.S. President Barack Obama.

The final polling numbers are in and statistician Nate Silver predicts that there is a pretty substantial chance of President Barack Obama winning a second term.

Jamie Weinman on the gap between trusting your gut and stats

After remaining relatively silent during the U.S. presidential election campaign, former vice-presidential Republican candidate Sarah Palin is urging voters to choose Mitt Romney.

President Barack Obama and presidential candidate Mitt Romeny made a lot of stops during the 2012 election campaign and this becomes quickly apparent in an animated map of all the stops created by statistician Jerzy Wieczorek.

Using data from the Washington Post’s interactive map of presidential campaign stops, Wieczorek explains that he was able to plot 450 different events.

Though, says Wieczorek on his blog Civil Statistician, the data set didn’t include information about whether the candidates went home between stops, so it’s possible there could be even more travelling involved than is reflected on the map.

Despite the frantic pace of travel (made all the more frantic because the graphic is set to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Flight of the Bumblebee’) poor North Dakota didn’t get a single visit.

Animated map of 2012 US presidential election campaigning from Jerzy Wieczorek on Vimeo.

Deal? Blogger risks his reputation

Candidates watch their steps on a road to the White House that’s strewn with debris