Tuesday Tracker I: Results
John Edwards and Fred Thompson won the first Tuesday Tracker Poll at ChoiceRanker.com
The Tuesday Tracker is a new ranked choice Presidential straw poll that will be open each Tuesday in the continental US (The 28 hour balloting period opens at 11PM Monday and closes 3AM Wednesday, EST). Participants can rank their choices 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and on from the current pools of announced and officially-exploring candidates in the Democratic and Republican parties.
Results are presented three ways:
1 Simple plurality: Like current US elections, a tally of first place votes.
2 Depth: Like college football rankings, a weighted tally of all place votes.
3 Instant Runoff: Like current Australian elections, a systematic aggregation toward a clear majority winner as votes are transferred from defeated candidates by round. Victory in this dimension trumps the others.
The Tuesday Tracker for August 14, 2007 was announced on four well-known political blogs: DailyKos, MyDD, RedState, and Free Republic. Fred Thompson and John Edwards won their races in each dimension of the poll.
| Democrats | Depth | Votes | % | |
| John Edwards | 69.74 | 47 | 43.52 | |
| Barak Obama | 53.14 | 30 | 27.78 | |
| Dennis Kucinch | 38.01 | 18 | 16.67 | |
| Hillary Clinton | 27.33 | 9 | 8.33 | |
| Chris Dodd | 23.58 | 1 | 0.93 | |
| Bill Richardson | 22.19 | 2 | 1.85 | |
| Joe Biden | 18.52 | 1 | 0.93 |
| Republicans | Depth | Votes | % | |
| Fred Thompson | 14.07 | 9 | 31.03 | |
| Mitt Romney | 11.65 | 7 | 24.14 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 10.33 | 4 | 13.79 | |
| Rudy Giuliani | 8.17 | 3 | 10.34 | |
| Ron Paul | 7.68 | 4 | 13.79 | |
| Duncan Hunter | 6.31 | 1 | 3.45 | |
| John McCain | 4.87 | 1 | 3.45 |
For further explanation, including views of the runoff and the underlying data, go to:
Democrats: http://www.choiceranker.com/election.php?eid=105
Republicans: http://www.choiceranker.com/election.php?eid=106
Turnout is so low that the results can be said to provide a little more that snapshot of the thinking within a few tiny corners of cyberspace. Moreover, participants in online polls are a self-selected group; they can not claim to accurately represent the views of the electorate at large. But the results do speak to the energy of a candidate’s constituency and to the character of the blogging communities where the announcements were posted.
ChoiceRanker.com also hosts month-long polls. At the time of this writing John Edwards leads the current August Democratic poll, but only narrowly, with Dennis Kucinich running a close second. Ron Paul dominates the August Republican poll with a first round victory and overwhelming depth. As usual, a significant portion of his supporters (nearly 40%) offered no 2nd place choice.
The August polls are here:
Democrats: http://www.choiceranker.com/election.php?eid=69
Republicans: http://www.choiceranker.com/election.php?eid=71
Thanks to those who participated. Please vote again next week… and invite your friends!
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