Presidential Tracker
The Presidential Tracker blog provides commentary on how the winner-take-all method of allocating Electoral College votes affects the way the candidates are campaigning during the 2012 election cycle. Since 2009, FairVote has been tracking the movements of the President using data from the Washington Post's ‘POTUS Tracker' and CNN's 'On The Trail' Tracker in order to examine the effect of battleground status on presidential attention. Fairvote's analysis of Presidential visits and events shows a significant emphasis on the declared 'battleground states' for the 2012 election and, in the period before the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, a heightened attention to states that traditionally have high donation rates. Since the end of the Democratic National Convention, FairVote has been tracking the states in which President Obama, Vice President Biden, Governor Romney, and Congressman Ryan are holding campaign events, and yet again, there is a marked focus on battleground states.