Pollspeak is trying something different this year for our weekly blog. In the past, we used things like paragraphs, sentences and punctuation. However, if Twitter has taught us anything, it’s that our fans like brief tidbits of info, and forget the fancy grammar, which is also perfect for Twitter. So we’ll be analyzing the polls and tweeting the interesting things we find.
Then we’ll collect them all here (updated after every few tweets) for posterity and for those people who missed it on Twitter or, God forbid, don’t use Twitter. We’ll also include details here for anything too big to tweet in its entirety. We might even add the missing punctuation sometimes.
Pollspeak Re-Tweet: Week 10, 2011
- The 16 teams on every voter's ballot: Alabama, Kansas State, South Carolina, LSU, Arkansas, Michigan, Stanford, Michigan State, Boise State, Nebraska, Clemson, Oklahoma, Virginia Tech, Oklahoma State, Oregon, Houston
- Only 58 AP voters this week. Chadd Cripe and Desmond Conner did not vote: http://tinyurl.com/3gvuzr2
- Chadd Cripe informed us and the AP last week that he wouldn't vote, but Desmond Conner was a surprise to us both: http://tinyurl.com/3gvuzr2
- Who will win today? 10 (out of 58) voters ranked Alabama over LSU:
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come to Voter Coach, a new weekly feature during football season. At Pollspeak, we have historically pointed out concerns with polls and ballots after the fact. The goal of Voter Coach is to try to help voters before they turn in their ballots.
We’ll post a new Voter Coach each Saturday evening, ideally after all the biggest games are played, but before the ballots need to be turned in. Voter Coach will point out some significant events of the current, past and upcoming weeks that voters should take into consideration when filling out their ballots. We’ll keep them quick in order to make the ballot deadlines. In some cases we may update Voter Coach throughout the day as games are completed. We’ll also do our best to TWEET the points that can fit nicely into 140 characters. So voters, check here before you turn in your ballots each week.
A final note: we aren’t trying to make voters conform. It’s called Voter COACH, not Voter DICTATOR. Instead, the goal is to raise awareness of some issues (generally just by asking questions) and let the voters make an informed decision on their own.
Voter Coach – Sep 4th, 2011
This week, due to the Labor Day game, polls aren’t released until Tuesday. So there may be some more additions before then.
- Did you have TCU on your preseason ballot? Will you now have Baylor ahead of them?
- Did you have Notre Dame on your preseason ballot? Will you now have USF ahead of them?
- Missouri plays Arizona State on Friday Sept. 9th. Is the team you rank higher this week the team you think will win that matchup?
- Mississippi State plays Auburn on Saturday Sept. 10th. Is the team you rank higher this week the team you think will win that matchup?
- South Carolina plays Georgia on Saturday Sept. 10th. Is the team you rank higher this week the team you think will win that matchup?
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