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Um, I (and the whole world) called it for Obama before 10pm that night. It seemed clear to me that the "incumbents" must have been legally required (or somethin
by ojbyrne 18y ago
Um, I (and the whole world) called it for Obama before 10pm that night. It seemed clear to me that the "incumbents" must have been legally required (or something) to wait till the polls closed on the west coast before they could make it official.
And lots of people called the election months before too. I followed http://electoral-vote.com/ http://electoral-vote.com/ just because I followed them the last two elections. The job of prediction they did was comparable. Though FiveThirtyEight.com did seem to have more/better features.
- josefresco 18y agoAgreed, if this guy had called the election in 04, or a more difficult call in '00 I would be impressed. As a democrat who saw 1 election stolen and 1 botched by Kerry, even I was confident in falling asleep early knowing we'd pull this one out.
- MaysonL 18y agoHe didn't call the election in '04, but one of his co-workers did call Obama a future president back then, after his convention speech.
- unalone 18y agoYeah, but he had it predicted back in March, and by two weeks before the election he had nearly every state accurately predicted.