Tag Archives: RCP

The 2008 US presidential election was “pretty close”, and Nate Silver’s state poll aggregation “pretty much nailed” it.

Posted on November 5, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

The pretty good Andrew Gelman: – This is a (not yet expired) static chart from InTrade on whether the RCP poll aggregation have been accurate:

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Yahoo! News ditch the political prediction markets.

Posted on January 19, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

The Yahoo! News US Political Dashboard was over-sold to us. We thought that Yahoo! News would promote the prediction markets. They did that for a very short period of time, but then they quickly back-pedaled, for some unknown reason. The … Continue reading →

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