North Carolina and the beauty of being a battleground state

Date October 21, 2008

Yes, for once, NC is getting some major attention in a national election campaign, and being described as a battleground state! Not only are Obama, Biden, McCain and Palin all regularly visiting us, but we’ve got famous people entertaining us where the only price for admission is listening to a li’l plug for a candidate.
Today, [...]

2008 Election Analyzed by Baseball Statisticians

Date October 7, 2008

October 7 Projection

In the USA there are five hundred and thirty eight electoral votes that decide an election. This led to an intriguing website founded by Nate Silver: fivethirtyeight.com
Nate is a baseball statistician who decided to apply his craft to politics:
“What we do over there and what I’m doing over here are really quite similar. [...]