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Designing HuffPollstrology: Astrology & Politics Arianna-Style for the 2008 Presidential Elections

After 2008′s historical Super Tuesday, where it was still unclear if Obama or Clinton would be the dem candidate (and, all of this pre-Palin) Arianna pointed to the melee caused by journalists relying on pollsters’ data.

We decided to create a editorial feature that would express our irreverence to pollster data and elicit some smiles from some of our savviest users.

The goal was to create a simple chart, easily scannable and scalable (for both the candidates and a few enhancements that we suspected might be made along the way).

We had a few major challenges to work with . . . .

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