Saturday, November 10, 2012

Spoils of victory: Nate Silver, election's 'other' winner, contemplates life ...

Republicans 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.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.Yet Rove has yet to learn what many others have taken away from Nov. 6, namely that New York Times election forecaster Nate Silver rules. Rove presents his Silverian ignorance right here: The president was also lucky. This time, the October surprisegood morning, guys. well, he says he's a nerd and he is trying to make math a little bit cool. nate silver is becoming somewhat of a celebrity with his presidential predictions. his blog called 538 which represents the number of electoral votes isCalling 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 and
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