Transparent budget spending, crowdsourcing government waste, unprecedented spending on polls, collecting school performance metrics, and rewarding civic app designers have co-existed with a massive expansion in Internet snooping and big-data spying.
Its biggest success came in elections for the European Parliament in 1994, when it won two seats and its Dublin candidate topped the poll, collecting almost 15 percent of the vote.
You have the question of whether or not it should remain a flat poll tax, collected through some fairly draconian measures".
"Then there is the question of whether or not it should remain a flat poll tax collected through some fairly draconian measures, whether it should still be criminally enforceable.
But new polling data collected by Ipsos Mori, exclusively published in The Guardian, paints a picture of two countries moving in very different directions when it comes to attitudes towards immigration.
The source of Romney's problems is very clear from exit- and entrance-poll data collected in seven states that have voted so far (Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan): evangelical Christians have refused to back his candidacy.
By merging polling, responses collected by field volunteers and commercial data, they could make fine-grained predictions about individual voters' likelihood of choosing Obama, together with what television shows they watched.
"I don't think anyone can look at this data we've released and say Kerry's a candidate who's been trashed and discredited," said Andrew Kohut, director of the nonpartisan Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, referring to recent polling numbers collected by his organization.
Using poll data collected in 2010 and 2011, Pew found that 66 percent of women 18 to 34 years old said that being successful in a high-paying career or profession was "one of the most important things" or "very important" in their lives.
In Section 3, we present the exit poll data collected in the framework of the POLECOMI project, and describe our empirical strategy.
