FiveThirtyEight: Models, Models, Everywhere

New York Times by Nate Silver | Aug. 7, 2012 (Opinion)

Forecasting a presidential election can be a huge gamble. But FiveThirtyEight will take a look at and compare a number of other statistical systems and their probabilities for success, anyway. Full Story »

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Subjects: U.S., Politics
Topics: Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Presidential Election 2012
Member Tags: electoral college, models, polling, forecasts
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Posted by: Posted by Pamela Hogle - Aug 7, 2012 - 12:09 PM PDT
Reviewed by: Dwight Rousu (review)
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 by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 13, 2012

Moderately interesting, but not too useful. All horse race and no horses.

It is pathetic that the odds are so close, given the sociopathy of Raw Money and Ruin Paul

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