Monday, September 22, 2008

See How They Run on ABC News

ABCNews.com has an interesting poll tracker on their politics site. What they've done is set up a poll tracker between Obama and McCain. The tracker is interactive so you can select things like "overall", "age", or "income" to see how different people vote depending on their background. You could present the same information in a newspaper but only as a very large graph. It is much easier to use the interactive version on the internet because it is much more concise and can easily and quickly narrow down the exact information you're looking for in voting habits. This is a prime example of how the internet can make news much more user friendly then trying to quickly catch the information in a television news program or read in a complex graph in a newspaper.

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