Election Math Is Real - Take Note, Mainstream Media

"The 2012 presidential election will be remembered as a fierce political contest. But the media landscape was also a battleground, featuring a fight for relevance between pundits and a new breed of anti-pundit: the nerdy, bluster-averse statisticians who eschewed gut calls for poll-crunching predictive algorithms.

Well before midnight Tuesday, the verdict was clear: Election 2012 was a revenge of the nerds.

Opinionators, many of whom had ranted about a race "too close to call" and some of whom had publicly scoffed at the statisticians, were left looking silly as President Barack Obama sailed to a second term.

Number-crunchers, who nailed the electoral college count with near state-by-state accuracy, basked in glory — or about as much glory as can be expected.

"This is probably a good time to link to my book," tweeted stat-king Nate Silver, the only thing close to a public boast he said all night."* Remember when Cenk, using electoral math, called the election in September? Remember when media pundits refused to listen to reason, calling the race "too close to call" in the face of logic. As Cenk Uygur explains, results don't lie.

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