Posted on 11/09/2012 8:14:14 PM PST by Steelfish
He Called It, And Now Silver's A Pop-Culture Star By JOCELYN NOVECK
NEW YORK (AP) — The other night, Nate Silver got a little taste of what things are going to be like for him, post-Election 2012.
The 34-year-old statistician, unabashed numbers geek, author and creator of the much-read FiveThirtyEight blog at The New York Times had gone out for a drink with friends on Manhattan's Lower East Side. But he couldn't stay incognito; immediately, he says, people sitting at the bar recognized him.
He was surprised, but probably shouldn't have been. After all, for 24 hours, ever since his election forecasts had proved uncannily successful — he correctly predicted the presidential winner in all 50 states, and almost all the Senate races — he'd been hailed as the election's "other winner," who'd silenced doubters and proved the value of a cool-headed, math-based approach.
That very night, he'd appeared on Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" for the second time in three weeks. "Don't you want to stand up and say, 'I am Nate Silver, bow down to me!!'" Stewart roared, as the bespectacled Silver sat and chuckled. His name was trending on Twitter and he was the subject of a satirical Twitter hashtag, "Drunk Nate Silver." The Hollywood Reporter said he'd "made statistics sexy again." Many called his story a real-life "Revenge of the Nerds" tale.
And, oh, his new book had soared to No. 2 on Amazon, after he linked to it on Twitter an hour after the first network call for President Barack Obama. ("This is probably a good time to link to my book," he'd tweeted at 12:13 a.m. — the closest he came to gloating.) Even so, Silver says he wasn't quite prepared for that incident in the bar.
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Wisconsin was also stolen by fraud. They just bussed up fancy lawyer and a bunch from Chicago to vote in Wisconsin.
What did he know about fraud, and when did he know it?
i beleive it
Did they have electronic voting in 2004 I know they did not in 2000?
You explained this better than I ever could. You notice that they keep skipping over jackmercer’s work here on FR before the election:) I too was guilty of pretty much the same behavior. I was looking almost exclusively at Ras & Gallup for my polling data this year & we see how that turned out.
Romney has had everything handed to him in life. That sort of privileged background doesn’t often produce a fighter.
Explain how Romney received post graduate degrees simultaneously from Harvard Business and Harvard Law. From having it “handed to him”.
Whatever your views on Bain Capital, explain how he was successful there. From having it “handed to him”.
How was he able to reverse a pre-Olympics disaster successfully? From having it “handed to him”.
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