The Race Goes On: Now in Florida.

Our 2008 Election Quiz is gaining some exposure (very mucho muy welcome) as it goes live in the Sunshine State at the Miami Herald. It's great timing as Florida takes center stage heading into the final week of the presidential campaign.

The Washington Times Accepts the Challenge

Another Web site is live with our 2008 Election Quiz, this time on the East Coast. The client is the Washington Times and you can test your political IQ here.

So, now we're wondering how they'll fare against the Midwest users over at the Detroit Free Press. We hope that the West Coast sites come aboard soon, too. Hint, hint!

Our Elections Quiz 'Wordle'

At times when our attention span escapes we stumble upon fun / cool / interesting things... since we're all talking elections and more elections, an Elections wordle is in order :)

Image of http://wordle.net/

Political junkie? US history buff? Trivia lover? Read. This.

It's live. Our 2008 US Election Quiz is live. Show off your campaign knowledge and pick up some US history trivia along the way over here.

We launched Oct. 7 with 200 questions and have been adding 10 new ones six days a week. We plan to keep that up right up to election day.

The quiz is similar to Deadline and the Olympics one but we've introduced the idea of campaign buttons, which you collect as you move up the ranks. You can modify your profile settings to display a button in your collection, too.

You'll be off to a good start if you've been watching the debates since we've created a good chunk of questions based on the debates. And don't forget that we gave a you a few freebies in our last post.

The Crazy World of Presidential Politics - Newzwag Style

To be sure, this has been no easy task. If you think politicians are good at not answering journalists' questions, try creating questions based off those non-answers. Miraculously, we have managed to accomplish this monstrous feat.

And just to entice you, Dear Reader, here a few kernels of presidential-awesome we've learned while creating our new quiz:

• Eisenhower ruined the original cork floor of the Oval Office because he wore his spiked golf shoes constantly
• John Quincy Adams used to swim naked in the Potomac
• They had to build another bathtub in the White House because Taft was so fat
• Joe Biden wrongly declared that both FDR and television were prominent during the stock market crash of 1929
• George W. Bush was a cheerleader at Andover Academy
• LBJ used to hold meeting in the bathroom while he used the facilities

And on top of all that, we've even got questions on issues ("It's the economy, stupid"), the workings of government (apparently the Electoral College is NOT a school for would-be politicians), and day-to-day election coverage (another candidate mangled the English language!).

So stay tuned for the debut of our totally super awesome, and always informative/fun/hilarious Newzwag 2008 Presidential Election Quiz.