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Sorry about the abrupt end to the liveblogging last night; Firefox crashed, and CoverItLive wouldn't let me log back in as the moderator.
Anyway, it's a good day to be a liberal. As you all know by now, it was Obama in an absolute landslide. He won by a huge margin in the electoral vote, and by a…
If you're one of the probably four people who haven't heard about Nate Silver, you've missed out. He's a statistics guy who runs the always interesting 538 Blog at the New York Times. He made his name in baseball statistics, Moneyball style, and moved into politics where he made state-by-state…
The numbers are now settling in for the Coleman-Franken Senate race recount for Minnesota. With 74.2% of the votes counted, it is now possible to make a reasonably good prediction of the outcome of the current recount, not counting challenged ballots or other changes. The following graph shows…
... if Nate Silver's analysis is correct.
If a person is asked to make up a bunch of numbers ... random numbers ... s/he will tend to make up non-random numbers instead. So, for instance, if I ask you to state random numbers that have two digits, and I plot the second digits on a hisogram, and…
I think he's way too optimistic on Franken-Coleman, honestly.
Smith, Sununu and Collins are just about the last 3 moderate Republicans left in the Senate.. or at least of those who are running this time. With them gone, I forsee a period of increase partisanship and vicious infighting in the Senate, forestalling real efforts at progress.
David Brooks expressed this opinion in conversation with Charlie Rose last Friday, and I have to agree with him. Change, if it happens, will only happen slowly.
Hi guys,
I am wondering if any ScienceBlogger is doing live-blogging of the election??? I am, so if you are interested, check out my blog for updates every ten to twenty minutes max!