Electoral Vote Predictor 2004
The votemaster over at the Electoral Vote Predictor 2004 provides a handy service: he tallies up all the current polls and uses their results to determine which candidate probably leads in electoral votes at the current time. All the data is available on his site as well as information on all his sources, so you can fact-check his conclusions if you’re skeptical.
To facilitate the dissemination of his tallied results, I’ve whipped up a quick-and-dirty Flash movie that can be displayed on one’s website. You can see it on the sidebar of this site, or right here:
[FLASH]http://ryan.freebern.org/wp-content/evp04.swf, 150, 100[/FLASH]
To place this on your own site, you can download a .zip file (2.5kb) of the movie here, unzip it, place the .swf file on your web host, then use the following code (with “MOVIE-URL” replaced with the actual URL of the .swf file on your server) to display it:
Many thanks to the votemaster at electoral-vote.com for the great job he’s doing and for his assistance in making this little app work.
Update (22 July 2004, 1:13 P.M.): Turns out this applet only works with Flash 7.0 or higher, so I’ve updated it to produce a helpful error message if your plug-in is an older version.
July 21st, 2004 at 1:39 am
Enh, don’t believe it - we just found out in our election how wrong polls can be, and we have a tiny campaign length compared to yours. There will obviously be major swings in the final days.
July 21st, 2004 at 10:39 am
Sure, but it gives us something pretty to look at while we wait for the election to roll around!
July 21st, 2004 at 3:55 pm
Thanks, Ryan! I’ll be hitting this again, I can tell you. I don’t have a server to post it on, so I’ll have to keep checking yours, if that’s okay, unless someone else we know posts it on their server. But great work! And enjoy your upcoming vaca!
July 23rd, 2004 at 1:40 pm
Your applet works on all my non IE browsers.
When I put it on my page (http://www.dougshaw.com) in IE it does not work.
On the “sample page” at the electoral vote site from where I downloaded it - it doesn’t work in IE.
:(
Doug
July 25th, 2004 at 1:44 am
Hi Ryan. Cool applet, but it doesn’t work on my page either. I’ve only tried viewing it with IE so far.
I can see the one on your page, but not the one on my page. Any ideas?
July 25th, 2004 at 1:54 am
Hey guys, I got it to work.
I copied the code from the page source of this post and used that on my webpage, instead of the code in the text box. The code I’m using on my page is as follows:
July 25th, 2004 at 1:56 am
Oh darn, I guess I needed to escape out the code? I’m not even going to attempt that. Anyways, I just copy/pasted the code used to display the applet in this post, and then changed the URL to the one on my site.