DemConWatch: Better than CNN
This is part of why I love the crazy Internet world of which RedPost is a small (tiny, very tiny) part: the blog called 2008 Democratic Convention Watch maintains a list of Democratic superdelegate (the Republican party doesn’t have these — there are 794 “party elders” who get to vote on who the Democratic nominee is, the primary election is more or less in their hands at this point) endorsements using all volunteer labor. Their list is more up-to-date, verifiable, and accurate than CNN’s, CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS, the AP, or any other major news source — they’ve scooped the networks and the AP multiple times and caught corrections and details that the networks have still yet to fix. In fact, a lot of the networks don’t list who is on their endorsement lists, they just list the numbers, so you can’t really even verify the accuracy of their lists.
But what a crazy concept — volunteers, using the Internet, doing a better job of maintaining detailed data than major news organizations with huge budgets.
I emailed Matt at DemConWatch with the suggestion to start using Swivel for their graphs, 1) because their current graphs, while useful, looked gross and 2) because Swivel allows you to embed the graphs in your blog. So here they are, the most current, verifiably accurate graphs of Democratic primary superdelegate endorsements, produced with 100% volunteer labor:
Keep up the good work guys!
