The Blog Really » 538.com http://blogreally.com COMMENTARY ON THE STORIES THAT LEAVE YOU STARING AT YOUR SCREEN SAYING, REALLY... Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:03:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Baseball Stat Man And Election Result Seer Calls Election For Franken http://blogreally.com/2008/11/baseball-stat-man-and-election-result-seer-calls-election-for-franken/ http://blogreally.com/2008/11/baseball-stat-man-and-election-result-seer-calls-election-for-franken/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:55:00 +0000 admin http://blogreally.com/?p=336
The Really: Nate Silver (new media darling of political prediction) and statistical wunderkind is predicting Al Franken will win Seanate seat in Minnesota by 27 votes. This guy is good.

At his election fact machine fivethirtyeight.com Silver is backing his prediction with numbers, analysis and a transparent statistical methodology that makes perfect sense in its elegant genuis.

Who wants the over-under?

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