With degrees in maths and some background in mod/sim, one might suppose that I would at some point get around to mathematically modeling to the upcoming presidential election. I’ll spare you the gory details, but the upshot of this chart is that the odds of a McCain-Palin victory are hovering below 4% as of this morning’s state-by-state polling data. These are roughly the same odds that Obama-Biden landslide into office with over 72% of the electoral college votes. Naturally, I am hoping for an outcome somewhere within one sigma from the median, since elections which fall well within the tails seem to smack of systemic bias.
Crunch the numbers, ye conservatives, and despair.
p.s. The math geeks at UIUC have come to rather similar conclusions: http://election08.cs.uiuc.edu/
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