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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.…

Nate Silver: Why you should ignore exit polls

By Steve Perry | 11.04.08 | 12:14 pm

Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com published a great piece this morning about why you shouldn’t waste your time trying to google up exit poll leaks: They’re always wrong.
Some of the reasons (there are 10 in all):

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Survey USA: Obama by just 3 in Minnesota?

By Paul Demko | 11.03.08 | 8:43 am

Barack Obama holds a 49-46 lead over John McCain in Minnesota, according to a new poll conducted by SurveyUSA. That’s within the survey’s 3.9 percent margin of error. No other poll released in recent weeks has shown the…