This widget tells you how many news stories on yahoo contain a candidate's name and your search phrase.
The widget uses the Yahoo BOSS API to search Yahoo News and retrieve the number of news stories for the past 7 days. Youcalc executes 14 calls to the BOSS API, which explains why updating can take a little while.
Tags: polls, palin, obama, mccain, election
Based on presidential election polls, the widget sums electoral votes and groups them into “strong states”, “weak states, etc., to illustrate how much each candidate relies on “weak states votes”. Also shows the development since March 2008, to identify if a candidate is getting to rely more or less “on weak states votes”