{"id":5074,"date":"2008-10-28T15:14:15","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T22:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/election-not-tightening\/"},"modified":"2008-10-28T15:14:15","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T22:14:15","slug":"election-not-tightening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/28\/election-not-tightening\/","title":{"rendered":"Election not tightening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/search\/label\/today%27s%20polls\">FiveThirtyEight.com<\/a> is the most interesting election horse race site. It&#8217;s run by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/140469\">Nate Silver<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballprospectus.com\/news\/?author=59\">Baseball Prospectus<\/a> stats guy, who does the most thorough analysis of polling data, sophisticated in a way that only a Sabermetrician can fully appreciate. Silver rejects the &#8220;tightening race&#8221; narrative that we&#8217;ve started to hear, as he looks at state polls and projects the Electoral College outcome:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the state polls aren&#8217;t showing movement toward McCain, then it is probably the case that any perceived movement in the national polls is sampling noise. If anything, in fact, the state polls are showing movement toward Obama on balance, not just in battleground states like Virginia, but also in non-battlegrounds as diverse as New York, Oklahoma, Oregon and Arizona.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Movement in the popular vote in non-battleground states is not significant, so let&#8217;s not get distracted. But let&#8217;s not forget to vote, either (I&#8217;ve already voted, thank you very much.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FiveThirtyEight.com is the most interesting election horse race site. It&#8217;s run by Nate Silver, the Baseball Prospectus stats guy, who does the most thorough analysis of polling data, sophisticated in a way that only a Sabermetrician can fully appreciate. Silver rejects the &#8220;tightening race&#8221; narrative that we&#8217;ve started to hear, as he looks at state &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/28\/election-not-tightening\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Election not tightening&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-1jQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}