Here's the awesome thing about Nate Silver being so spot on: We can go ahead and dismiss almost all of the ex-post facto excuses/spinning about why the race went the way it did. On the Sunday before the election, TimRepublicans disregarded Nate Silver and other empiricists, and lost badly. Almost everyone is ignoring the empirical data of climate scientists -- and our losses could be catastrophic.Calling all 50 states the day before the election as Nate Silver did is one thing — predicting President Obama's winning majority 10 years in advance is hard to top. But that's what Ruy Teixeira did. Since 2002, when Democrats were at a low point andSince his mathematical model called the election correctly in all 50 states Nate Silver has been the focus of adulation from nerds everywhere.Barack Obama may have comfortably won re-election in the electoral college, and opened up a decisive lead (two million and counting) in the popular.
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