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		<title>Kingmaker&#8217;s first blog mention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8230;
All in all, another neat political ‘game’.
 The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publi.us/blog/2007/12/20/kingmakers-first-blog-mention/</link>
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		<title>Kingmaker Live!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not only was one of my favorite words made the official 2007 word of the year, but it&#8217;s use will now describe the birth of our election game!
W00t!
Check out Kingmaker! Our really cool presidential primaries game that will hopefully change the way we think of political punditry and how we do office pools for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publi.us/blog/2007/12/13/kingmaker-live/</link>
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		<title>Fantasy Congress in Economist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t reached the annals of Wired, we were mentioned in the Economist! Here&#8217;s what they said (yes, the rest of the article has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publi.us/blog/2007/12/12/fantasy-congress-in-economist/</link>
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		<title>Back from T-Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As always, we don&#8217;t update this blog enough. Perhaps we should switch to a twitter account? We&#8217;re back from Thanksgiving (not that we actually left at all).
Anyway, we&#8217;re busily putting finishing touches on the last parts of what we&#8217;ll call the Presidential Primaries Game we&#8217;re developing in partnership with a media partner. We&#8217;re still bootstrapping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publi.us/blog/2007/11/18/back-from-t-day/</link>
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		<title>More from the Blogosphere&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, we don&#8217;t do enough shout-outs, but we love the members of our community who blog/write/challenge each other online. So, here are some recent links to friends who talk about Fantasy Congress:

Progressive U- Nick created a Bonus Opportunity for all of the Progressive U members. This nonpartisan, non-profit social welfare organization hopefully is a lot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publi.us/blog/2007/11/10/more-from-the-blogosphere/</link>
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		<title>Newsweek- CMC and Fantasy Congress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publi.us/blog/2007/11/04/newsweek-cmc-and-fantasy-congress/</link>
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		<title>National Prize Essay Contest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since many of our users are educators and students, I just wanted to post a cool opportunity I received from a friend. You can win $2500 in a cash prize for writing an essay! Below is the press release.
NCAI Joins Reconnecting The Circle™ in a National Prize Essay Contest
10 students will each win a $2,500 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publi.us/blog/2007/10/31/national-prize-essay-contest/</link>
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		<title>Fantasy Congress in Escapist Magazine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A big shout out to Joe Blancato of Escapist Magazine, an online publication dedicated to the world of gaming. Not only is this a fun publication, but they recently ran a story on us about Fantasy Congress and why we are so committed to our vision.
Here&#8217;s the link to the article: Fantasy Congress: Gaming the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publi.us/blog/2007/10/30/fantasy-congress-in-escapist-magazine/</link>
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		<title>FC updates, the election and extending the season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, we&#8217;re working on a number of cool things. In terms of FC, we&#8217;re responding to user comments and focusing on providing a better gameplay experience and making sure that Fantasy Congress is understandable for both our educational users and our fabulous political users. On the list is changing the trading system, improving our messaging [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publi.us/blog/2007/10/30/fc-updates-the-election-and-extending-the-season/</link>
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		<title>Fantasy Congress in Master&#8217;s Thesis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of our users are students, educators, poiticos, and other fabulous folks. We can now proudly include in those ranks, Joyce Neys, a Ph.D. student who just finished her Masters from Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Some months ago she collected results on websites that had online games as a tool of political motivation. She found that online [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://publi.us/blog/2007/09/08/fantasy-congress-in-masters-thesis/</link>
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