Wednesday, November 07, 2012
Revenge of the Nerd: Nate Silver Is 2012’s Other Winner - The Daily Beast - by Trevor Butterworth - There are two big winners in the U.S. this morning, and the happiest one is possibly not the guy with graying hair who gets to keep running the country. Instead, Nate Silver, the nation’s 34-year old Delphic oracle can look on his mighty empire of polling data, and smile: he nailed it. Again. - The author of The New York Times–hosted blog FiveThirtyEight had correctly predicted the electoral lay of the land when all around him political pundits pronounced the race too close to call or maddeningly inconclusive.
President Obama's Six Keys to Victory | Politics News | Rolling Stone - Tim Dickinson - President Barack Obama has won re-election – his lease on the White House renewed by a multicultural, center-left coalition that ought to give GOP consultants nightmares, producing an electoral college landslide that surprised everyone not named Nate Silver. (The Five Thirty Eight guru's reputation is as golden this morning as SuperPAC kingpin Karl Rove's is tarnished.)
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