Slate: The Political Horse Race (An Animation)

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The Presidential Horse Race

Literally: an animation of the 2012 Republican campaign as a horse race.

By Will Oremus
Posted Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011, at 5:11 PM ET


Republican presidential candidates Rick Perry and Mitt Romney at the Fox News/Google debate
Photograph by Phelan M. Ebenhack-Pool/Getty Images.

The press is routinely accused of covering political campaigns as if they were horse races: so preoccupied with who’s up or down in the polls that it ignores the substance of the campaign. President Obama made the claim in so many words last month, and journalism professor Jay Rosen has made a career out of bemoaning horse-race coverage wherever he finds it.

Here at Slate Labs, we’re doubling down. If people want a horse race, why not give them a horse race?

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2011/10/horse_race_politics_an_animation_of_the_2012_republican_campaign.html