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New York Times to host Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight

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The New York Times said Thursday that it would begin hosting the popular blog FiveThirtyEight and make its founder, Nate Silver, a regular contributor to the newspaper and the Sunday magazine. Mr. Silver, a statistical wizard, became a media star during the last presidential election season for his political projections based on dissections of polling data. He retains all rights to FiveThirtyEight and will continue to run it himself, but “under the banner and auspices of NYTimes.com,” The Times said in…

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New York Times to host Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight

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The New York Times said Thursday that it would begin hosting the popular blog FiveThirtyEight and make its founder, Nate Silver, a regular contributor to the newspaper and the Sunday magazine. Mr. Silver, a statistical wizard, became a media star during the last presidential election season for his political projections based on dissections of polling data. He retains all rights to FiveThirtyEight and will continue to run it himself, but “under the banner and auspices of NYTimes.com,” The Times said in…

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538.com’s Nate Silver weighs in on Florida 2010: ‘Charlie Crist is not a good sharer’

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From Nate Silver of 538.com, the best political site you should be reading. Here are Charlie Crist’s favorability ratings among registered voters in Florida, according to the Quinnipiac poll. Crist’s favorability ratings are higher among independents than among Democrats or Republicans (although not by a statistically significant margin in the former case). That’s very unusual for a politician who does not actually call himself an independent. Still, although Crist’s favorability ratings with Republicans have declined some, they’re still pretty decent.…

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Nate Silver of 538.com upgrades competitiveness of Florida Senate race

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From Nate Silver of 538.com, perhaps the best political site you’re not reading: “The pace of Senate polling has slackened this month as pollsters have turned their attention to next Tuesday’s elections as well as the continuing fight over health care. My attention, likewise, has been concentrated on those other areas. But for the sake of continuity, a very brief Senate rankings update is in order as the clock ticks down on October. I am changing the status of only…

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In defense of Rush Limbaugh

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No, the headline is not sarcastic. No, I do not particularly care for the guy. Yes, Rush has said all other various and sundry sorts of racially inflammatory things. But there’s pretty compelling evidence a couple of particularly inflammatory quotes that have been attributed to Limbaugh on CNN and at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch are things he simply never said. There’s no audio file, there’s no YouTube, there’s no transcript — there’s no sourcing of any kind to speak of,…

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538.com: Charlie Crist second most popular Gov

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If you’re into politics, numbers, and the vicissitudes of public opinion, you’ll love Nate Silver’s new gubernatorial power ratings. He throws a couple oft-neglected factors into the mix to create an expected approval rating, which includes the state’s size and partisan leanings, as well as other, more standard metrics. Who’s the most popular governor in the land? A fairly well-informed observer might guess Jon Huntsman, Jr. of Utah (who won’t be a governor for much longer), Charlie Crist of Florida…

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Should Democrats Be Rooting for Charlie Crist?

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From Nate Silver: Florida Governor Charlie Crist will reportedly announce tomorrow that he is running for the United States Senate. At first glance this move — which would have surprised until we began to hear credible chatter about it from Republican insiders earlier this month — would seem like a real recruiting coup for the GOP. In contrast to most governors, Crist retains strong approval ratings; he is well ahead, moreover, of prospective Democratic opponents in early horse race polling.…

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