Nate Silver-Led Statistics Men Crush Pundits in Election

Nate Silver was right. The Gallup Poll was wrong. Silver, the computer expert who gave President Barack Obama a 90 percent chance of winning re-election, predicted on his blog, FiveThirtyEight (for the number of seats in the Electoral College), that the President would receive 51 percent of the popular vote as he called each of the 50 states, including all nine battlegrounds. Silver infuriated conservatives with his model, which uses a number of measurements and calculations, including attention to state polls.