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Entries Tagged as '2008 Election'
Amazing Inauguration photo – 1.5 gigapixels
January 25th, 2009, 11:00am by Sam Wang
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Forbes’s top 25 “liberals”
January 23rd, 2009, 11:22pm by Sam Wang
Forbes has an article on the “25 most influential liberals in the U.S. media.” It’s unintentionally amusing.
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The end for Coleman?
January 23rd, 2009, 9:27am by Sam Wang
Two recent events suggest that Coleman’s contest of the Minnesota Senate election result is nearing an end.
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Satellite view of the inauguration
January 21st, 2009, 11:56am by Sam Wang
Taken by Geosys and visible with 0.5-meter resolution here, at Popular Science. Thanks to Marc Ambinder and Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic. Now, how to estimate the crowd from this image? Update: an interactive version via the Washington Post is here.
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Thoughts on Inauguration Eve
January 20th, 2009, 1:56am by Sam Wang
First – for a list of ways to watch tomorrow’s festivities, go here. Online (C-SPAN, Hulu) as well as via MSNBC in a Starbucks near you. Now then… For a look back at 2008, Pollster.com has an excellent roundup. Did you know that 30% of all votes were cast early? That more than ever, the [...]
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On the unreasonable success of Congressional polls
January 7th, 2009, 3:29pm by Sam Wang
As regular readers know, the meta-analysis is a hobby. I’ve only asked for support via ActBlue (nearly $45,000) or the NRSC. But now, a prize from Kevin Drum, who notes that my polling averages were extremely close to the final results. In addition to the 364 EV prediction (a bit seat-of-the-pants at the time, but [...]
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Franken wins by 225 (and our contest winners…)
January 5th, 2009, 8:52am by Sam Wang
In the Minnesota Senate race, the count’s nearly final: Franken over Coleman by 225 votes, a margin of less than 0.01%. The final count is Franken 1,212,431, Coleman 1,212,206. Court challenges are pending, but the count will be certified this afternoon. So Franken wins the statistical coin toss in a race that was, in any [...]
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Ties, damned ties, and statistics
November 27th, 2008, 12:30am by Sam Wang
Regarding the Minnesota recount, reader RC points out: “By any meaningful scientific standard of measurement, the vote in Minnesota is a tie, and the recount process is just a mechanism for adjudicating a tie rather than a way of determining overall voter preference.” If RC is correct, this gives a different way to think about [...]
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