Voters reluctant to take a stand on energy, foreign policy issues, according to ElectNext data [Startup Roundup]

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MUST READS

What’s the number one issue that ElectNext users decline to take a stand on? Energy followed by foreign policy, according to the startup’s blog. The data is based on what percentage of questions users skipped an issue. Check out ElectNext’s blog for more election analysis.

In other ElectNext news, read the story of how the startup was founded over at BusinessWeek. Also check out ElectNext CEO Keya Dannenbaum‘s opinion piece on DailyMuse about how targeted marketing is bad for governments.

Get more election analysis from local startups over at Monetate‘s engineering blog. Turns out Pinterest users are really into Romney (also see: Ann Romney’s huge on Pinterest, according to Curalate) and Chrome users are more likely to vote for Obama.

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DuckDuckGo pushes on with its experiments to see how skewed Google results are depending on your previous searches. Find the latest results here. The Wall Street Journal did its own study and found similar results.

Check out how Conshohocken’s Monetate handled Hurricane Sandy in this feature from FastCompany.

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