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Nate Silver, the geeky statistician who is singlehandedly dismantling the myth of Mitt-mentum

Daily Telegraph by Dan Hodges | Oct. 27, 2012 (Comment)

When Charles Foster Kane takes one final look back at his tumultuous life, he encapsulates it in a single, immortal word: “Rosebud”. In years to come, when Mitt Romney takes a look back at this tumultuous election campaign, I suspect he may very well do the same. Except he will not speak of a cherished object, but a person: “Poblano.” Full Story »

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 by CM Dugan - Oct. 27, 2012

SUMMARY: The Telegraph does a profile on NY Times’ Nate Silver aka Poblano, the man behind the FiveThrityEight blog, a blog that has been conducting stats on the 2012 presidential race WHAT’S NEW: A interesting profile into someone who might not be wildly known, but often read. BALANCE: Profile piece; there really isn’t another view point to discuss. Though those on the right disagree with his stats, despite being accurate in the past. TRANSPARENCY: The articles provides of insight and facts to make to make it easy not to question it’s transparency.

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