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It looks like I read the data correctly. But is there more that we can take from this? I believe there is. Gary Johnson has tallied a Libertarian record 1. There were three main winners on I Side With and a conglomerate of other candidates that we'll call our 4th including Jill Stein, Virgil Goode, and others. With the surveys on I Side With resulting in nearly even four way splits, we do some division and find that 5. Not likely, but obviously a great number of them did.

As has been pointed out repeatedly in my articles and comments, this quiz tends to be used by the youth of America. It should come as no surprise then that Gary Johnson and Barack Obama did well here. They both depend on the youth vote. Obama performed well here and he performed well on Tuesday with this very same base.

Finally, let's talk about where some other pundits went wrong in their analysis of voter data, specifically polls. Frequently, GOP analysts pointed to the sample of the "pro-Obama" polls and stated that the party proportions were skewed to the Democrats, and that is true. This is truly impressive given the fact that with a republican incumbent, you have many more, and much more diverse, democratic candidates on the ballot.

While there is some variation, only two results stand out to me as being significant. Still, take this with a grain of salt:. All in all, these discrepancies are relatively nit-picky and the consistency of the results both surprised and heartened me. I also imagine that the resulting percentage we get is rounded and understandably so , adding to overall error.

I repeated the test with a smaller sample size of around 1, for the election and found no significant differences between candidates other than a slight advantage to Jill Stein that was barely statistically relevant. As sensible as this seems, one must also ask the more fundamental question of whether this balancing act is, in fact, an act of partiality in itself.

Is it then incumbent on iSideWith, and us as a nation in general, to tip the scales in the name of nonpartisanship to grant this candidate a platform mathematically equivalent to that of the rest of the field? Imagine the scandal, if, say, the results above showed a significant p-value that Trump was disadvantaged.

I know for myself, I consciously implemented these measures partially to better defend against inevitable accusations of bias and partisanship.

Despite the undeserved accusations of its left-leaning bias, I think an argument can be made that PolitiFact possess, if anything, a conservative bias simply because they want so badly to defend themselves against attacks on their legitimacy.

There are those who say that bias and subjectivity, especially of the political variety, is unavoidable — that we are compelled by our nature towards partiality.

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Taylor is a political analyst and tech marketing consultant. He manages the data, research, and marketing aspects of the site. Having a lifelong interest in politics, he was searching for a way to engage more voters.