538.com — Nate Silver comes out

May 30, 2008

Today Nate Silver, a writer at the baseball and baseball stats site Baseball Prospectus, revealed himself as the anonymous author of FiveThirtyEight.com, an ongoing detailed compilation and statistical analysis of poll results in the US Presidential election contests.

The data that Silver presents are not encouraging for Obama backers. He shows Hillary clobbering Mccain, and Obama losing a squeaker.

[tags]bring back Jimmy the Greek[/tags]

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