Yesterday, the New York Times ran a story about "microtargeting," the practice of using purchase data to predict who you might vote for. The paper built profiles of Clinton, McCain, and Obama supporters. In the data were the types of pizza you were likely to buy as a back of each candidate.
This is a couple months old, but I didn't see it until yesterday. And I'm sure you'll see how it's relevant today. A rapping pizza slice on the dynastic nature of the Bush-Clinton-Bush years. Previously: Slice's Primary Candidate Endorsements
I try to keep things at Slice apolitical. After all, even the slimiest of Republicans and the skeeviest of Democrats enjoys good pizza. But this is an important election, and I figure all you homeslices reading the site could use some guidance as to whom the best pizza candidate might be among the front-runners in each party's nomination race.
The New York Daily News is following gubernatorial Eliot Spitzer as he makes campaign stops:
Spitzer's tour bus rolled on for the second day of its post-Buffalo statewide sojourn. The News' Celeste Katz reports that Spitzer flipped a pancake at a breakfast at a firehouse in Fayetteville - then proclaimed Cam's New York pizza in Watertown the state's best.
For that slight heresy (has Spitzer ever been to Brooklyn's Di Fara Pizza or Grimaldi's?), he deserved what awaited him in Rome, when he listened to concerns of local farmers.
Spitzer is in danger of alienating the Slice vote with such talk.
"Like the candidate, Gephardt's campaign lacks bells and whistles. There is none of the innovation or razzle-dazzle of Dean's campaign. That's unless you count The Great Gephardt Iowa Pie Challenge link on his campaign website. There, visitors are invited to 'tell Dick where you think he should go for his next slice?of pie.' "
The subject earns snickers from journalists, but the locals, like a standing-room-only crowd at Mabe's Pizza in Decorah, smile when Gephardt, who has been known to make three pie stops a day in Iowa, describes the strawberry-rhubarb slice he just consumed at the Family Table Restaurant in town."
I'm not sure who would run the country worse: an oil cartel or a fan of strawberry-rhubarb pizza. Feh!
Slice is part of the Foodblog Ad Network. To advertise on this site or across a network of food-related weblogs, click here.
Slice is also part of the New York City Blogad Network, which allows advertisers to target an audience of smart and savvy Gothamites. To place an ad on Slice or on the NYC Blogad Network, click here.
Yesterday, the New York Times ran a story about "microtargeting," the practice of using purchase data to predict who you might vote for. The paper built profiles of Clinton, McCain, and Obama supporters. In the data were the types of pizza you were likely to buy as a back of each candidate.
Today's 
