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		<title>And the Clock is Ticking</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks Wired for pointing me to these totally awesome pict-o-grams relating the candidates to pop culture icons. My personal favorites are the Brittney Spears, Sea Lab 2021, typography and game machines.
On a serious note, there is a great website for tracking and making sense of the polling data. It&#8217;s called Five Thirty Eight (the total [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.tylerballiet.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/starwars.jpg"><img class="floatright" title="starwars" src="http://www.tylerballiet.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/starwars-152x300.jpg" alt="" width="152" height="300" /></a>Thanks <a href="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/10/post.html" target="_blank">Wired</a> for pointing me to these totally awesome pict-o-grams relating the candidates to pop culture icons. My personal favorites are the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/trappedinabay/2918369763/in/set-72157607788144332/" target="_blank">Brittney Spears</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/trappedinabay/2919126880/in/set-72157607788144332/" target="_blank">Sea Lab 2021</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/trappedinabay/2919126504/in/set-72157607788144332/" target="_blank">typography</a> and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/trappedinabay/2918279603/in/set-72157607788144332/" target="_blank">game machines</a>.</p>
<p>On a serious note, there is a great website for tracking and making sense of the polling data. It&#8217;s called <a href="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/" target="_blank">Five Thirty Eight</a> (the total number of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College" target="_blank">electoral votes</a>) and it crunches the data from all of the polls into one, easy to read site. The site is run by Nate Silver, a famous baseball statistician who is able to accurately predict team wine/ loss records and player performance. He recently turned his sites to politics, which, like baseball, is a data driven field. During the primary&#8217;s, his numerical predictions were right on the money. As of today, the polls look good for Obama.</p>
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