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mk  ·  3831 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: White GOP Candidate Changes Name to Cesar Chavez in Arizona Race

I think it's a much more difficult task, that probably couldn't be performed by one person alone. The problem that such an effort would invariably suffer from, is that a large block of constituents might not agree with the affiliations, whatever they might be. It's tough to disagree with Nate Silver's predictions when he is demonstrably correct, however there would be no way to validate these affiliations. Maybe an open-source software that just made assignments based on the data would work.





cgod  ·  3830 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I read candidates stances on various issues and take a look at their previous background, seems like the minimum validation needed for me to vote for a candidate.

For things like judicial elections I never vote for the guy who has an endorsment from the prosecutors or the police union.