Tag: real clear politics
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Nate Silver – He Blinded Us With Science?
Polls and pollsters became an interesting sidebar during the presidential election. Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight blog at the New York Times became a topic of controversy. Conservatives vilified him as a stooge for the Obama campaign. Liberals vilified conservatives for living in denial about scientifically determined predictions. I heard shades of the climate change meme playing…
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A Romney-Biden Presidency? Scenarios for an Electoral College Meltdown
Last month I published a post "predicting" a tie in the electoral college vote. (My 2012 Electoral College Prediction) On MSNBC's Daily Rundown this morning, Chuck Todd had an interesting piece on a tie in the Electoral College. I see that Intrade gives a 5% chance of a tie; that is 1 in 20. Several…