[Data-modeling] Presidential campaigns

[Gordon Mackenzie]

Andrew Johnson was not a republican when he ran with Abraham Lincoln  
for the 1864 election. Bob Barr is a former? Republican running as a  
Libertarian. Strom Thurman ran as a Dixiecrat while serving as a  
Democrat in office.

Party affiliation as campaign property, yes.

+1

~ Gordon

<<< gordon at metaweb.com >>>



On May 29, 2008, at 3:45 PM, Christopher R. Maden wrote:

> I’ve changed the 2008 US presidential election on sandbox: <URL:
> http://sandbox.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000022435e
>> .  It now only lists the declared independent candidates or those who
> have been selected by their parties.
>
> It also models the nominating processes as primary elections, even if
> they are not strictly a single election.  You will find McCain,  
> Clinton,
> and Obama contesting their parties primaries, but not yet the main  
> election.
>
> The other challenge is running mates.  I have created a co-type of US
> Presidential campaign and of US Vice Presidential campaign.  You can  
> see
> that the selected tickets all have running mates.  Only the  
> presidential
> campaigns are shown as contesting the election, but if you look at a
> politician’s career, you can see his or her bids for Vice President on
> an equal footing with other campaigns.
>
> I am also debating whether the party affiliation should be a  
> property of
> these campaigns rather than just of the politicians themselves, as,
> unlike in most other US races, there is no requirement that the
> candidate actually be a member of the party.
>
> Comments?  Suggestions?
>
> ~Chris
> -- 
> Christopher R. Maden
> Data Architect
> Metaweb Technologies, Inc.
> <URL: http://www.metaweb.com/ >
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