It’s almost a month after the November 2nd election and blogger Nate Silver has finally gotten around to writing about 8th District Republican Joe Walsh’s victory over three-term Democrat Melissa Bean. Silver, whose blog “Five Thirty Eight” projected odds of … Continue reading
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An email from Joe Walsh: Friends: It’s been an amazing week. One week removed from election night, we remain absolutely confident in our victory — with virtually all of the absentee votes from Cook County in, our lead is 350 … Continue reading
Who to believe? The WeAskAmerica poll of yesterday? Or New York Times 538 prognosticator Nate Silver? Or, we could wait until tomorrow and see how people vote. … Continue reading
A telephone poll overweighted to women who are more partial to 8th District incumbent Congresswoman than to challenging Republican Joe Walsh which showed both at 41% is my guess as to why New York Times prognosticator Nate Silver has lower … Continue reading
Thanks to Capitol Fax Blog for pointing me to these statistics estimating the odds of Bill Brady’s winning the gubernatorial election. Click to enlarge the image. Think it might suck some air out of Pat Quinn’s fund raising efforts? … Continue reading