Nate Silver (the guy behind 538) is a pretty famous baseball statistician who has applied his trade to politics and polling. It's politics for geeks. I wrote

Nate Silver (the guy behind 538) is a pretty famous baseball statistician who has applied his trade to politics and polling. It's politics for geeks. I wrote more at http://www.altgate.com/blog/2008/10/nate-silver---t.html http://www.altgate.com/blog/2008/10/nate-silver---t.html He just started last year, but over time I bet he's going to discover things about politics that have been overlooked (in the same way Billy Bean found out OBP was overlooked).