Minnesota Politics viewed through spreadsheet gadgets

MNPublius is a blog which is "tracking the status of Minnesota Politics", which, in a recent post, they've decided to visualize using charts and data summaries from a Google spreadsheet. They present the poll results for the 2008 senate race and presidential race as well as approval ratings of 3 local politicians. They've embedded these charts and data summaries right in their blog post, which makes it a nice visual page.
Note - this probably marks the beginning of some posts which point to examples of people using spreadsheet gadgets rather than pointing to the actual underlying spreadsheet itself). To see more examples, visit the Google Docs help center.

Site:	MNPublius Blog
Page/Post:	PMN Polling Report

Delegate data tastes good on a spreadsheet

Laurent Kretz posted useful data (which this blog cannot endorse as correct) showing US Delegates (yes, for the presidential election) by State, by Date, and with a summary. This is not the last example of such data presented in a spreadsheet this year, but this might give others some inspiration for more data analysis, maybe adding charts, etc.

Site:	Laurent Kretz blog
Page/Post:	1,312 Delegates to go
Spreadsheet:	Delegates per US State, etc.

Presidential Primary Data with some analysis

There's plenty of political chatter, news and data on the web these days... A blogger known as "Indy" created his own "overly detailed spreadsheet of all the democratic party's numbers for the 2008 primary"... The formatting is nice, as he describes it: "I've color-coded some of the cells, so that it's easily visible where some "problem spots" are. What I mean by "problem spots" are places where the people made one choice, but the current political system stacked up against them anyway."

Site:	Indy CC Blog
Page/Post:	2008 Primaries Current Standings (Democratic)
Spreadsheets:	Democratic Primaries 2008 - Totals By State

Data: Church Attendance by Income

Political Animal is a, you guessed it, political blog as part of Washington Monthly... They took posted some data about church attendance mapped to median incomes and someone on the post commented with a spreadsheet in return showing the data and the chart re-created. Worth a look as an example of a scatter chart.

Site:	Washington Monthly
Page/Post:	Political Animal
Spreadsheet:	US States: Church Attendance v.s. Median Income

Local Election Data

Someone on the NJ.com forums posted historic election data for the city of Trenton, NJ in a spreadsheet. This allows the viewers to see trends across election years for stats such as numbers of registered voters, votes per candidate, etc.

Site: NJ.Com Forums
Page/Post: Forum Post entitled: Trenton Election Data
Spreadsheet: Trenton Municipal Elections Data Sheet

Campaign Contributions Data (Norman Hsu)

Political use of spreadsheets is more common than you might think. Here's one from SuitablyFlip.com showing campaign contributions made and raised by Norman Hsu from 2003-2007. Suitably notes: "... the contributions are organized by recipient, by contributor, and by individual transaction. This data isn't necessarily infallible, as it's culled from a variety of sources and undergoes a series of iterations, compilations, and aggregations on its way from the source documents to this uploaded format."

Site: SuitablyFlip.com
Page/Post: Hsu, Recobbled
Spreadsheet: Hsu Contributions