Silver is about the only analyst with such an in depth knowledge of statistical polling. I do not like all of his conclusions but I cannot fault his methodological rigour.
Sent from my iPhone On Nov 5, 2012, at 6:39 PM, "Eric Roberts" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes he does...Nate is a statistical genius... > > ------------------------------------ > Three Ravens Consulting > Eric Roberts > Owner/Developer > [email protected] > tel: 630-486-5255 > fax: 630-310-8531 > http://www.threeravensconsulting.com > ------------------------------------ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Judah McAuley [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 3:52 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: it's over > > > If you notice, the image says "16% in" albeit faintly. They are obviously > running tests of the system that is going to get hammered tonight. Somehow > those tests ended up public. Oops. Probably happened to those of us here > before, however. > > As for polling and analysis, I like FiveThirtyEight. Nate Silver does > statistics very very well. > > http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/ > > Cheers, > Judah > > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:42 PM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> That's pretty messed up. Bush had 500,000 K more popular votes, but if >> this map is to be believed, Romney will get almost 4, 000,000 more >> popular votes, and yet lose...that seems unbelievable. >> >> Also, this shows about 36,000,000 Americans casting a vote for >> President.....is that accurate??? I knew our voting numbers sucked as >> a democracy, but out of 300,000,000 of us, only 36 million are going >> to vote??????? REALLY? >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Casey Dougall - Uber Website Solutions >> < [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/11/early-election-results-via >> -msnbc-148500.html >>> >>> >>> I like how this pans out... Maybe will go back to popular vote and >>> squash these swing state campaigns and all the stupid news that goes >>> along with >> it >>> once and for all... >>> >>> For the record... >>> >>> Democrats have won the popular vote in four out of the last five >>> presidential elections - including the 2000 race in which Al Gore >>> got >>> 500,000 more votes than George W. Bush nationally but wound up >>> losing the electoral vote by two votes. (Worth noting: The last time >>> one party had such a long run of popular vote victories was when >>> Republicans won the popular vote in five of the six presidential >>> elections between 1968 and >>> 1992.) > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:357616 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
