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The [Nate] Silver lining playbook for 2018 midterms

October 16, 2018 Renee Shur 2018 Election, Congress, Survey, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Do you wake multiple times during the night obsessing about the upcoming midterm elections and the Democrats’ chances of taking back the House or

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Nate Silver: 2012 (Data)person of the year

January 3, 2013 Renee Shur Education, Good government, Ideas, Media, Obama, Politics, Science, Technology, Uncategorized 2 comments

It’s official.  Time magazine recently anointed Barack Obama as the 2012 Person of the Year.  With all due respect to the editors of Time—and

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Baseball and Politics – Part I

April 6, 2010 Arthur Lieber Civil Rights, History, Sports One comment

Like many people, two of my primary interests are politics and sports. They both lend themselves to statistical analysis; they have “seasons” (in both cases too long); and winners are sometimes the wealthy front-runners (George W. Bush or the New York Yankees); other times they are among those with the least resources (Dennis Kucinich or the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays).

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