Friday, July 18, 2008

For $8.34 you can make history

Sean Teavis, an information architect running for state representative in Kansas has gotten an incredibly imaginative campaign fund raising effort off to a fantastic start. Check it out!

Amongst other fascinating facts illustrated are:

Winning elections in America is all about name recognition.

Only 14% of people know who Nancy Pelosi is.
Only 0.003% know who Dirk Kempthorne is.

93.4% of the time it's the candidate with the most money for advertising that wins.

No candidate for State Representative in Kansas has ever had more than 644 donors.