Electoral statistics

May 31, 2008

in Geek stuff, Politics

This website presents the 2008 American Presidential election, as represented by an expert in baseball statistics. At this time, the message seems to be that Clinton has a better chance of beating McCain than Obama, but I wouldn’t read too much into that. This election has already repeatedly confounded early polls and conventional wisdom. A lot will happen before November.

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. 09.08.08 at 8:18 pm
. 09.16.08 at 3:44 pm

FiveThirtyEight: Electoral Projections Done Right
15 September 2008

Electoral vote:
Obama - 250.3
McCain - 287.7

Popular vote:
Obama - 48.4%
McCain - 50.6%

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