One Other Thing

Nate Silver is a goddamned genius. The only projection he missed slightly was Indiana. FiveThirtyEight.com has been a bit of a salvation of mine for lo, these past few weeks, and I would turn to him when I needed a jolt of optimism. Well done, good sir. And seriously, compare his projected map with the final one. It's uncanny.

Another example of baseball being good for something. (For those of you that don't know, Nate is a baseball statistician who turned what he knew about baseball stats into political stats, using complex mathematical formulas to predict outcomes based on various polling data. I'd say that, other than Obama, Nate was probably the big winner of the 2008 election.)