Nate Silver, the baseball-stat nerd who has become the nation’s most accurate election prognosticator, has an intriguing numerical breakdown of Al Franken’s odds of overcoming his tiny deficit in the disputed U.S. Senate race against Norm Coleman.
You need to read pretty deep into the column to get what Silver is driving at, and you’re going [...]
About the Author: Kevin Featherly is a former managing editor with Washington Post Newsweek Interactive and a founding editor at Channel 4000, the news Web site of WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, Featherly has published thousands of news stories, features and commentaries that emphasize technology, public policy and the law. In 2000, he was media coordinator for Web, White and Blue--the world's first online presidential debates. He now owns and operates Featherly Consulting, L.L.C. in Bloomington, Minn.