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Gov. Tim Pawlenty. Photo: IowaPolitics.com, Flickr

Pawlenty in the middle: Nate Silver graphs the 2012 contenders

By Andy Birkey | 02.04.11 | 11:42 am

Nate Silver of the New York Times’ FiveThirtyEight graphed the potential 2012 presidential contenders based on their insider/outsider status and their position on a moderate-to-conservative scale. Not surprisingly, Rep. Michele Bachmann took the conservative extreme. Tim Pawlenty, on the other hand, was rated smack in the middle of the graph. Silver notes that he had trouble ranking the enigma that is Minnesota’s former governor.

Recount Day 3: Franken, Coleman push ballot challenges past 1,500

By Chris Steller | 11.21.08 | 9:16 pm

What seemed a far-fetched math geek dream only hours ago came true tonight: On Day Three of Minnesota’s U.S. Senate recount, the Al Franken and Norm Coleman campaigns again increased the number of challenged ballots by more than 40 percent over the previous day, to 1,525. That number dwarves by a factor of 13 the current 115-vote gap between Franken and Coleman, and suggests the challenged-ballot count will continue to grow exponentially, as MnIndy predicted Friday morning.

Hi ho, Nate Silver! If recount ballot challenges rise exponentially, they’ll hit 2,500

By Chris Steller | 11.21.08 | 11:50 am

Simple math tells us that if the Al Franken forces and the Norm Coleman camp keep ramping up the ballot challenges, they’ll reach a combined total of 1,732 challenged ballots by the end of Minnesota’s U.S. Senate recount.…