Politics
- Top House Islamophobe Allen West Falls – The Daily Beast
- Allen West Election Results: Democratic Newcomer Patrick Murphy Prevails
- Michele Bachmann clings on to her seat but key conservatives beaten by Democrat challengers | Mail Online
- Hayworth loses seat in NY’s Hudson Valley – WSJ.com
- Guess what? The polls (and Nate Silver) were right.
- Nate Silver Wins, Dick Morris Loses – Truthdig
- Dick Morris ‘landslide’ prediction too early to call – Erik Wemple – The Washington Post
- VIDEO: Romney’s concession speech: 5 best lines – POLITICO.com
- Text of Mitt Romney’s concession speech – News – Boston.com
- Hillary Clinton, Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand: Potential Democratic Candidates For President in 2016
- Karl Rove stroking a Mac: Bad for both brands? | Technically Incorrect – CNET News
- Election 2012 media coverage quiet, then frantic, including Karl Rove protests | masslive.com
- Bill O’Reilly On Romney: You Can’t ‘Coast’ To The Finish Line, ‘White Establishment Is The Minority’
- O’REILLY’S ‘STUFF’ – Salon.com
- Another Loss for the Tea Party – Chris Heller – The Atlantic
- Why are Jews liberals? « Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Life in New York, Then and Now « Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- ‘The Signal and the Noise’: Secrets of a master numbers cruncher – Philly.com
- Republicans mourn ‘the day America died’ and plot the path ahead – latimes.com
The morning after President Obama’s reelection, tea party activists and movement conservatives reacted with dejection, rage and considerable resolve — saying they just need a better national candidate and a purer distillation of their anti-tax, small-government message to win the presidency in 2016….
Actually I think that is exactly what will seal the destructive fate of the Republican Party. In case they weren’t watching the Tea Party’s right wing radical agenda is what so many Americans revolted against and rejected in this last election. Moving further to the right would be a death knell to the Republican Party.
- Obviously related but beyond Politics Bayes’ Theorem and Nate Silver may be the big winners:
- With sterling call, Nate Silver defines new wave in U.S. polling | Reuters
- What is Nate Silver doing? – ComPost – The Washington Post
…These, from Twitter, are about 90.9 percent probable — at least in the Nate Silver sense that if, they turn out to be wrong, you would need to run the model hundreds more times to be sure.— “Results ask Nate Silver if they’re significant.” — @collision
— “Nate Silver’s samples have only a median and a mode. Because no number would be mean to Nate Silver.” — @dilefante
— “Nate Silver can recite pi. Backwards.” –@smedette
— “When Nate Silver goes out to eat, his tips alway accurately correspond to the quality of the service.” — @benhuh
— “When Nate Silver asks you, ‘Wanna make a bet?’ the correct answer is no.” — @perko
— “There are no imaginary numbers, only ones Nate Silver hasn’t acknowledged yet.” — @tbq_
— “Nate Silver can divide by zero.” — @jkfecke
There’s plenty more in the Twitter hashtag where these came from!
- Introduction to Bayesian Thinking
- Nate Silver: politics ‘geek’ hailed for Barack Obama wins US election forecast – Telegraph
- Meet Sam Wang, The Neuroscientist Who Beat Even Nate Silver In His Election Prediction – Business Insider
- How do children learn so quickly? Bayesian statistics and probabilities help Nate Silver and kids. – Slate Magazine
- Nate Silver brings Moneyball to the world of politics – National Political Buzz | Examiner.com