(This article was originally published at Access to Statistics, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.)
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Nate Silver – SXSWi 2009 (image: Randy Stewart)
Nate Silver, who blogs for the New York Times, predicted the outcome of this election when he gave Barack Obama a ‘nearly three in four chance’ of winning the election back in September. Since then he has consistently put President Obama ahead of Mitt Romney, despite Romney leading in several national polls during that time.
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