{"id":9318,"date":"2016-01-15T07:47:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T12:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=9318"},"modified":"2016-06-09T21:18:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T02:18:12","slug":"tools-and-terms-to-help-you-understand-the-2016-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/tools-and-terms-to-help-you-understand-the-2016-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools and terms to help you understand the 2016 Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10193\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/tools-for-tracking-the-2016-presidential-election\/democratic-and-republican-political-symbols\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10193\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/political-parties-grfx.jpg\" alt=\"Democratic and Republican Political Symbols\" width=\"850\" height=\"445\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10193\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/political-parties-grfx.jpg 850w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/political-parties-grfx-225x118.jpg 225w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/political-parties-grfx-300x157.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/political-parties-grfx-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Survey Monkey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<th>Type of tool\/term<\/th>\n<th>Link<\/th>\n<th>What it does<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Polls<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/latest_polls\/president\/\" id=\"polls\">Daily poll<\/a><\/td>\n<td>List shows results of major polls and the point spread between top candidates in each race<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Financial Terminology<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/president\/guide\/glossary.html\">Campaign finance glossary<\/a><\/td>\n<td>Glossary of presidential campaign finance jargon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span id=\"bundling\">Bundling<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fec.gov\/law\/lobbybundlingfaq.shtml\">FEC Bundling FAQ<\/a><\/td>\n<td>FAQ on Lobbyist Bundling<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span id=\"opensecrets\">OpenSecrets<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\">opensecrets.org<\/a><\/td>\n<td>Run by The Center for Responsive Politics. Mission: to Inform, Empower &#038; Advocate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span id=\"followthemoney\">FollowTheMoney<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.followthemoney.org\/show-me?f-core=1&#038;c-t-eid=\">followthemoney.org<\/a><\/td>\n<td>The nation&#8217;s only free, nonpartisan, verifiable archive of contributions to political campaigns in all 50 states<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span id=\"votesmart\">Vote Smart<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"votesmart.org\">votesmart.org<\/a><\/td>\n<td>40,000 politicians, millions of facts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span id=\"politicalcompass\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/politicalcompass-tracks-the-us-presidential-candidates-only-bernie-sanders-is-on-the-peoples-side\/\">Political Compass<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalcompass.org\">politicalcompass.org<\/a><\/td>\n<td>Tracks the socio-political positions of politicians in democracies and in political races.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span id=\"greenhouse\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/a-kid-made-a-browser-app-that-lets-you-see-who-is-buying-politicians\/\">Greenhouse browser plug-in<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/greenhouse.org\">greenhouse.org<\/a><\/td>\n<td>Lets you hover over politicians&#8217; names on any web page to see which donors have given them money, and how much.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Type of tool\/term Link What it does Polls Daily poll List shows results of major polls and the point spread between top candidates in each race Financial Terminology Campaign finance glossary Glossary of presidential campaign finance jargon Bundling FEC Bundling FAQ FAQ on Lobbyist Bundling OpenSecrets opensecrets.org Run by The Center for Responsive Politics. Mission: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/tools-and-terms-to-help-you-understand-the-2016-presidential-election\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tools and terms to help you understand the 2016 Presidential Election&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1192],"tags":[1873,2430,2429,2416,2238,1292],"class_list":["post-9318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-politics-2","tag-2016-election","tag-check","tag-fact","tag-guide","tag-polls","tag-track"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9318"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10264,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318\/revisions\/10264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}