The author hits the drawbacks pretty well. Politicians only care about broad opinion polls because those tell them how to market themselves to actually win elections. Letters and emails, and tweets!, written to representatives suffer from too much selection bias for them to care.
However, this will be a great placebo for the masses of people that like to feel involved. So it could draw a lot of traffic anyway, which could mean money. I can see his site being something that Wolf Blitzer checks constantly the day before the election. Like CNN's moving maps, this can become part of the grand spectacle of Democracy that we have all grown to know and love.
However, this will be a great placebo for the masses of people that like to feel involved. So it could draw a lot of traffic anyway, which could mean money. I can see his site being something that Wolf Blitzer checks constantly the day before the election. Like CNN's moving maps, this can become part of the grand spectacle of Democracy that we have all grown to know and love.