TW: One of our recommended blogs complements another. I have applauded 538 and Silver repeatedly myself, he was all over the numbers, not only accurate but he has that rare ability to educate whilst not coming off as condescending. Also, I had not followed Drudge that closely prior to about 18 months ago, but man he was really bad the last couple of months.
And for the record, TW bested Silver in the EV forecast, I was at 368 v. 365 actual (assuming Obama gets the one NE EV, I missed on Montana), thank u very much...
From Andrew Sullivan:
"How Good Was 538?
This good. The only state their model got wrong was Indiana, where they expected a narrow Obama loss. He won the state by a hair. Nate Silver owned this election on the polling front: one young guy with a background in baseball stats beat out the mainstream media in a couple of months. And he beat out the old web: I mean if you consider the total joke of Drudge's recent coverage and compare it with Silver's, you realize that the web is a brutal competitive medium where only the best survive - and they are only as good as their last few posts.
If you want to know why newspapers are dying: that's why. They're just not as good as the web at its best. This election proved that beyond any doubt. For the record, I think the WSJ and the WaPo and the NYT and the Anchorage Daily News rocked in this election. Most of the rest of the old media: not so much."
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