Four Ways to Slice Obama’s 2013 Budget Proposal
A slightly hallucinogenic interactive from the New York Times.
Images: Screenshots of the New York Times infographic on President Obama’s budget proposal. Green indicates an increase in spending. Red indicates a decrease. Shown here are the overall budget, changes in discretionary spending and budgets by department.
Selected words used by President Obama in his State of the Union addresses, and by Republican presidential candidates in their debates, television interviews and major speeches since May.
2012 Election: The Candidate Match Game
Answer the following questions to see which candidate is most like you.
This infographic provides information for where all the U.S presidents until now went to college. The colleges presidents attended gives a perspective into the kind of person they are and what experiences they had in their formative years.
This infographic analysis whether wall street and top companies “own” Barack Obama because of significant contributions they have made to his campaign. It provides how much money his campaign and the people in his cabinet raised during their campaigns and who were the net contributors. It also provides the same information for top Republicans in congress.
The Electoral College has always been a source of controversy in American politics. This week, Pennsylvania Republicans are looking to shift the way states apportion votes in presidential elections by switching from winner-takes-all to the Maine Plan. The latter would award one electoral vote to the winner of each Congressional district, after which two are given to the winner of the state.
This development not only poses a huge threat to Democratic states in 2012 but is also a reminder of why the Electoral College was necessary in the first place.
(Hint: It originally sought to restore balance to a system that massively overrepresented small states).
Will the system that helped Obama secure a win in 2008 prove detrimental to liberal strongholds in the next election?
Courtesy of Wikipedia
Visualizing the Local Effects of Recovery Spending on Job Loss
In the wake of U.S. President Obama’s speech on jobs last night, we present this mapping of Recovery Act spending. Development Seed, the same folks who mapped the famine in the Horn of Africa, have turned their attention on America.
Barack Obama at 50 - interactive guide
To mark President Obama’s 50th birthday our interactive timeline shows key milestones in his life alongside major events of the last half-century in American and international politics, the US economy and the civil rights campaign
The 2012 Money Race: Compare the Presidential Candidates
The candidates have raised more than $80 million for their campaigns to date, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. Mitt Romney easily raised the most among the Republicans, bringing in $18 million. But that falls far short of the $46 million that President Obama raised.
What Twitter users asked the president
At a town hall Tuesday, President Obama answered a few of the thousands of questions posed by Twitter users in the past week. Below, the percent of recent questions asked by Twitter users, and White House journalists, that mention selected topics.
With President Obama fresh off the press conference podium, a jointUSA Today/Gallup poll asked the American public how they feel about the U.S. mission to kill elusive Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Do they approve of it? Who do they think most deserves credit?
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Since 2000, the number of organized hate groups — from white nationalists, neo-Nazis and racist skinheads to border vigilantes and black separatist organizations — has climbed by more than 50 percent, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Their rise has been fueled by growing anxiety over jobs, immigration, racial and ethnic diversity, the election of Barack Obama as America’s first black president, and the lingering economic crisis. Most of them merely espouse violent theories; some of them are stock-piling weapons and actively planning attacks.
The President on Jobs & Gas Prices: Read His Remarks, Download the Graphic
The jobs numbers this morning gave a positive sign on the first question, with another 268,000 private sector jobs in April bringing the total to more than 2 million over the past 14 months. The answers to the other two questions can be seen in part in factories like the one the President visited today in Indiana — Allison Transmission. It’s a business that is creating jobs making transmissions for hybrid vehicles after a boost from a matching grant out of the President’s clean energy investments.
What does the world - and Twitter - think of the death of Osama Bin Laden?
What does the world - and Twitter - think of the death of Osama Bin Laden? Data specialists Infomous have taken the data from Appinions and Twitter to produce this stunning visualisation. Click on a word to change the perspective - hover over it to get a list of comment pieces.
