I’ve been having some fun with the membership data that I have access too at the moment. If you’re wondering, that’s basically the information that Vaughn Palmer posted, no super-secret inside campaign data from me. But I was wondering how to visualize this data, beyond colour coding the riding maps. This isn’t going to give [...]
Archive for February, 2011
Columbian Cartographics – BC Liberal Edition
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Liveblogging the BC Liberal Leadership Debate
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Well, “liveblogging” might be overstating it a bit, but I didn’t alter it in any way, so here goes. My as-it-happened recount of the BC Liberal Leadership Debate. 3:37 – The evening begins with the perfunctory one year reminiscence of the Olympics, which must happen now BY LAW. I’m struck by the fact that I [...]
The People are Coming – Get Out of the Way!
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I received an interesting piece of mail from the George Abbott Campaign the other day. Aside from being too long for a direct mail piece and besotted by the unfortunate graphic design choices of which the Abbott campaign literature is replete, the actual content of the letter appears to have done some damage to the [...]
Points of Information
Posted in Points of Information, Uncategorized on February 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Hi there! I’m trialing the name Points of Information for my somewhat regular link-dump style posts, and here is yet another instalment of the linkstravaganza! Quick note, I did consider linkstravaganza, but was told by my girlfriend that it was “a little bit ridiculous.” I give her points for humouring me. Fantastic photo comparison here [...]
Liberal Endorsement Map
Posted in Uncategorized on February 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
To start, we’ve got a bit of a conversation going on over here at Matt’s last post about party membership cutoffs that I think is worth a read. I posted my counterpoint, and defence of membership cutoffs in the commentary. I heard a number of bloggers, as well as members of the BC Liberal Twitterati [...]
Keeping you out
Posted in Uncategorized on February 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Over the past month, I have been busting my ass trying to get new memberships signed and sorted for my candidate in the BC Liberal leadership race, one Christy Clark. Whether on the phones, in person, or over the internet, every spare moment I’ve had has gone towards getting people reengaged in the democratic process. [...]
