November 10, 2008
Finding Fame With a Prescient Call for Obama
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
At 9:46 p.m., blogging on his site FiveThirtyEight.com, Nate Silver called the presidential election for Barack Obama. The television networks followed suit about an hour and 15 minutes later after most polls in Western states closed.
Of course, Mr. Silver had a head start: he [...]

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I like the fact that McCain’s best example of Obama’s wasteful spending basically comes down to “Barack Obama tried to teach your children SCIENCE!”
As if scientists weren’t having enough problems due to federal budget freezes, now they’re facing flak from Republican presidential candidate John McCain because of a $3 million planetarium projector. Which was never funded.
McCain has repeatedly taken his [...]

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