Originally Posted by
Wander
Bam! Florida called, game, set, match.
On a serious note, I didn't really do anything except pick Florida correctly. It was a 50/50 shot, and although I had reasons in my head that made sense for picking it for Obama, it was essentially just a guess, and I could have just as easily lost to tommy, Jason Evans, and the rest of you who had the same picks as me minus Florida.
The lesson here is this: polling these days is really accurate, and good math, good statistics, and good science don't have political bias to them. Nate Silver may work for the New York Times and have personal liberal views, but that doesn't mean when he says 1 + 1 = 2, it's a biased or politically charged statement. Remember that for your 2016 predictions, and more importantly for those scientific issues that make their way into the political realm.