Blocking The Election

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John Warner confesses that, after obsessively following past elections, he's been overwhelmed this season:

Every day brings a dozen polls, national and battleground, each one a tealeaf to be read down to the finest grains. I have come to dread each day’s arrival of the recently Obama-unfriendly Gallup tracking poll. The latest news on the gap manages to penetrate even my most diligent attempts to avoid it. Upon seeing Romney up seven, I dig for analysis to tell me why it has to be wrong, and finding it, feel slightly better until I realize what I’m spending my time on.

He says "on Tuesday, Nov. 6, once the results start to come in, I’ll be at the movies, probably a double feature." The image comes from Unpolitic.me, a Google Chrome browser extension that removes political content from your Twitter and Facebook feeds:

Created by Chris Baker, creative director at Buzzfeed, and also one of the mastermind behind of Unbaby.me, the browser plugin that removes babies from your Facebook newsfeed permanently, Unpolitc.me focuses on removing any posts, opinions, and links that are political in nature without you resorting to unfriending someone. What happens is when someone posts a political status update, it will not show up on your Facebook news feed (as long as you’re using the Chrome browser). What it will show is something completely different — something that will be "awesome".

David Holmes sees the feature as a possible future for personalized media consumption.