The folks over at TheorySpark have given their take on Kingmaker. Some brief snippets:
Essentially, this is an election market, but you bet nothing and get a big prize if you win. It’s your chance to apply all that political game theory you learned to the 2008 primaries elections…
All in all, another neat political ‘game’.
So, we here at Fantasy Congress generally receive two publications that we read from cover to cover (or at least is our obligatory bathroom reading)- Wired magazine and the Economist. Although we haven’t reached the annals of Wired, we were mentioned in the Economist! Here’s what they said (yes, the rest of the article has nothing to do with us…):
AS MANY as 18m American adults play fantasy sports leagues. Movie buffs play Fantasy Mogul and anyone who thinks politics is not already surreal enough can play Fantasy Congress.
Congrats to our friends over at Fantasy Moguls too for their mention in the Economist!
This news is old already, but our alma mater where Fantasy Congress was born, Claremont McKenna College (CMC) was in Newsweek. Check out the article here. Here’s the gist though:
Hottest for Election Year
Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, Calif.
Two of every five CMC students major in government/international relations. Most of the rest are also talking politics, the campus obsession. Few selective colleges in America have such ideologically balanced faculties and student bodies. Speakers like Bill Clinton and Justice Antonin Scalia dropped by last spring, and neither was tarred and feathered. CMC, one of the five Claremont Colleges, is vibrating with anticipation of the 2008 presidential race. Andrew Lee, a recent graduate and political junkie who created the Fantasy Congress Web site, says that on long campus weekends he and his friends would skip the beach and drive to a state with a hot election and knock on doors for their favorites.
W00T!