Pollster.com

Works like a charm.

Wold love it for BB. Especially 2 new 3G BB's coming out this month.

This is cool and on my iPhone now. The scale on both the % and date axes is to large to see anything of consequence. For example, this is what's going on in Virginia: http://tinyurl.com/44uuun

Very exciting (or catastrophic, depending on your perspective) - but completely invisible on the iPhone graph, which looks like a pair of chopsticks laid side-by-side.

I'd suggest a scale of 30-60% on the Y axis and May-November on the X axis - this would make the movements a little more visible.

It'd be nice if this updated when pollster.com does, but it seems to be about a day behind. Why is that?

Very nice, but I agree with @Herb that the tiny "chopstick" graphs aren't very visible (or usable). Some Y-axis exaggeration would really help here.

Also, when I hit the "poll sources" button for a state, it brings up the Pollster.com page - which is pretty much useless because the iPhone can't do Flash. Is there a way you can have the presence of an iPhone client (which your server know) automatically trigger the "classic" HTML graph instead? That would make this entire app much more usable.

@Herb Caudhill and all: While we feed data to Slate, their iPhone app and the design of the charts on it were entirely their doing. We're grateful for it, as it makes our data far more easy to access via iPhone. I wish I'd had the budget to do our own "mobile" version, as I agree that the Pollster leaves much to be desired as an iPhone experience.

@mattn: I am not sure how often Slate updates their features, or whether the iPhone Poll Tracker is on the same schedule as their standard Election Scorecard. However, I can tell you that the data we feed them updates simultaneously with what we publish online.

@ThatSeattleGuy: On the chart format, see my answer to Herb above. For better or worse, that's the way the folks at Slate chose to do it.

On having the iPhone client automatically trigger the "classic" HTML graph instead of the Flash chart: Actually, we set it up the chart pages to do just that. On an iPhone or non-Flash browswer, you should see the "classic" version displayed automatically.

Is that not happening on your iPhone? To check, click "sources" while looking at specific state on the Slate Poll Tracker. It should take you to the Pollster.com chart page for that states. Please let me know if it doesn't work (mark at pollster dot com).

We do not have an easily rendered "classic" version of the map on the front page, but we are working to put a list "quick links" to chart pages that will appear where the front page map does on non-Flash browsers.

@Mark:

No, that was my point. Clicking on "data sources" on my (first-gen) iPhone brought up the little symbol that it puts in place of all Flash apps, not the HTML graph.

UPDATE: okay, now it's working, I wonder if this was a caching issue from my having surfed to Pollster.com in Safari last week? Well, if anyone else complains, you'll know I wasn't a outlier :}. Thanks.

PS: Who at Slate should get our feedback on problems that relate to their rendering of your data?

This app is getting panned in the app store. Apparently, there was a previous version that folks liked much better before Slate took over the app.

@StandardDeviation - I think you're being kind. From what I can see, of the last 2-3 dozen reviews in the App Store, 90% of them are giving it the lowest possible rating (1 star) and many are discussing how they can roll back to the previous (non-Slate) versions. It's pretty impressive how universally loathed the Slate "upgrade" is.