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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
1. How about providing us with a brief description of the good news?
Sat Oct 20, 2012, 06:18 PM
Oct 2012

Some of us have used up our monthly NYT allotment of articles we can read. Also, your link goes to a page asking, "Should Obama concede Florida?"

muriel_volestrangler

(101,322 posts)
4. I believe if you go to the 'master page' of the blog, it doesn't count towards the quota
Sat Oct 20, 2012, 06:29 PM
Oct 2012

ie http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/ . I use that for Silver and Krugman's equivalent, and it seems to work. In Silver's case, you don't see the entire blog entry, but they put a fair amount before the 'read more...'.

kjackson227

(2,166 posts)
6. Yesterday, the possible election day numbers were...
Sat Oct 20, 2012, 06:30 PM
Oct 2012

287.8 Obama
250.2 Romney
with a 67.9 to 32.1 probability chance of winning

And...

the "Nowcast" as of October 19 numbers were...
284.5 Obama
253.5 Romney

Today October 20 election day numbers are

288.6 Obama
249.4 Romney

And...

the "Nowcast" as of October 20 numbers are...

286.4 Obama
251.6 Romney

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
7. The numbers & electoral vote forecast map is on the 'right side' of the page on link below
Sat Oct 20, 2012, 06:32 PM
Oct 2012

Here: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/

p.s. There is no limit to how many times you can access that page per month.




RedSpartan

(1,693 posts)
3. Two of the three charts didn't move at all.
Sat Oct 20, 2012, 06:22 PM
Oct 2012

And the EV estimator only moved a hair. But they are all an increase over this time last week. THAT is key. Time is running out for Romney.

regnaD kciN

(26,044 posts)
9. Re-elect odds stay the same at 67.9%...
Sat Oct 20, 2012, 06:34 PM
Oct 2012

Probably a good sign, since PPP's new +1 Ohio poll replaced their +5 one from a week ago...and we're still 70-30 to win the state. (Also, we're only behind a projected 0.2% in the vote projection in VA -- eminently winnable, with a good-enough GOTV effort.)

kjackson227

(2,166 posts)
11. Yes, I noticed the 67.9% is the same also...
Sat Oct 20, 2012, 06:59 PM
Oct 2012

but I could've sworn that Ohio and Nevada has turned a light shade of blue today. If someone can clarify then please do.

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