Wednesday, November 7, 2012

With sterling call, Nate Silver defines new wave in polling

would receive 51 percent of the popular vote as he called each of the 50 states, including all nine battlegrounds. “Nate Silver, right,” said Bill Burton, who moved from the White House to the pro-Obama super-political action committee PrioritiesAfter correctly predicting the results in 49 of the 50 states that have been called in the U.S. election (Florida remains too close to call), Nate Silver, the statistician behind the popular FiveThirtyEight blog, woke on Wednesday to find himself theWith President Obama's re-election, New York Times blogger Nate Silver has reason to smile. Silver became a near-god for nervous Democrats, and, as the campaign entered its final stretch, a sudden subject of scorn andwould receive 51 percent of the popular vote as he called each of the 50 states, including all nine battlegrounds. “Nate Silver, right,” said Bill Burton, who moved from the White House to the pro-Obama super-political action committee PrioritiesBy NATE SILVER. If President Obama wins re-election on Tuesday, the historical memory of the race might turn on the role played by Hurricane Sandy. Already, some analysts are describing the storm as an “October surprise”
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