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        <title>Presidential election forecasts :news</title>
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<title>now updating every hour</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:56:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ however, the row regarding the bradley effect is only updated manually. ]]></content:encoded>
<description>however, the row regarding the bradley effect is only updated manually.</description>
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<title>bradley effect added</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:51:31 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ simulating what would happen in my simulaitons if every state experienced a 2% or 3% &quot;bradley effect&quot;, that is if polls overestimated obama's share by 2 or 3%. David Stromberg <a href="http://www.iies.su.se/~stromber/Bradley.pdf">estimates here</a> the bradley effect to be between 2 to 3% in a set of recent elections.  ]]></content:encoded>
<description>simulating what would happen in my simulaitons if every state experienced a 2% or 3% &quot;bradley effect&quot;, that is if polls overestimated obama's share by 2 or 3%. David Stromberg &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iies.su.se/~stromber/Bradley.pdf&quot;&gt;estimates here&lt;/a&gt; the bradley effect to be between 2 to 3% in a set of recent elections. </description>
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<title>senate added</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:34:17 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ wanted to do that for a long time :-) ]]></content:encoded>
<description>wanted to do that for a long time :-)</description>
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<title>I have added</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:22:30 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ a worst-case scenario for obama, in which he loses 7 pivotal states where McCain is concentrating campaigning efforts. Karl Rove wrote an article about that, he's right that this is a possibility for McCain, even if quite remote.  ]]></content:encoded>
<description>a worst-case scenario for obama, in which he loses 7 pivotal states where McCain is concentrating campaigning efforts. Karl Rove wrote an article about that, he's right that this is a possibility for McCain, even if quite remote. </description>
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<title>an overview of political prediction models</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:11:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ from <a href="http://jcolomer.blogspot.com/2008/09/can-obama-win-in-american-political.html">Josep  Colomer</a>'s blog ]]></content:encoded>
<description>from &lt;a href=&quot;http://jcolomer.blogspot.com/2008/09/can-obama-win-in-american-political.html&quot;&gt;Josep  Colomer&lt;/a&gt;'s blog</description>
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<title>Florida added</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:46:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ to the conditional probs... somehow it didn&#39;t make the first cut
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<description>to the conditional probs... somehow it didn&amp;#39;t make the first cut
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<title>i added more interesting conditional probabilities</title>
<link>http://presidentforecast.andreamoro.net/news/26</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:11:40 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ including obama losing more pivotal states. I am now reporting only if they differ from the main statistics by more than 15%. Suggestions for more welcome!
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<description>including obama losing more pivotal states. I am now reporting only if they differ from the main statistics by more than 15%. Suggestions for more welcome!
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<title>new colors on the chart map</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:43:18 GMT</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[ much more readable now. Unfortunately the google chart api only lets me interpolate between 3 colors, so I can&#39;t do much better than this.
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<description>much more readable now. Unfortunately the google chart api only lets me interpolate between 3 colors, so I can&amp;#39;t do much better than this.
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