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kleinbl00  ·  3181 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What The Stunning Bernie Sanders Win In Michigan Means | FiveThirtyEight

Still, election statistics comes from polls. Silver's brilliance was that he didn't take polls at face value, he measured how they were measuring, as well as what, in order to turn them into psychohistory a la Hari Seldon. If you haven't read his book, you should.