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And I finally let out the long-held breath
At the beginning of this day, I was optimistic but still nervous about the election.
At the beginning of this day, I had just announced CommYou's alpha, but it had never really been tried seriously.
At the beginning of this day, I was nervous because I didn't know where my mother was.
Now? Mom turns out to have been up in NH, having a good time indulging a political itch that's been largely denied her for decades.
CommYou has gotten its first trial by fire -- while there were certainly warts and glitches, we got a great conversation going in the liveblogging thread: almost 800 messages from a couple dozen people over five hours. (Liveblog use case: check.)
And despite all the nay-saying, and the claims that the polls showed a false picture, in the end the actual election came out almost exactly as expected, with Obama winning a solid enough win to silence worries about a thousand lawsuits tomorrow, and both Obama and McCain delivering strong, gracious speeches to mark the end of the long campaign.
There will be bad days yet. But man -- I have to say that this is the best end I've had for a day in a long, long time...
At the beginning of this day, I had just announced CommYou's alpha, but it had never really been tried seriously.
At the beginning of this day, I was nervous because I didn't know where my mother was.
Now? Mom turns out to have been up in NH, having a good time indulging a political itch that's been largely denied her for decades.
CommYou has gotten its first trial by fire -- while there were certainly warts and glitches, we got a great conversation going in the liveblogging thread: almost 800 messages from a couple dozen people over five hours. (Liveblog use case: check.)
And despite all the nay-saying, and the claims that the polls showed a false picture, in the end the actual election came out almost exactly as expected, with Obama winning a solid enough win to silence worries about a thousand lawsuits tomorrow, and both Obama and McCain delivering strong, gracious speeches to mark the end of the long campaign.
There will be bad days yet. But man -- I have to say that this is the best end I've had for a day in a long, long time...
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From a quick review of the results this morning, it looks to me like the pollsters got Obama's numbers mostly right (within their claimed margins of error, anyway). There seems to be a little underestimation of McCain's numbers.
Rasmussen got it dead on, though, and they include party affiliation in their sampling technique. It looks like the people who were concerned with undersampling of McCain voters were right, but that undersampling wasn't usually accompanied by an oversampling of Obama voters. (Though Gallup and Reuters/Zogby seem to be exceptions.)
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Pretty much, yes.
Really, I think the most interesting advent this year was the rise of polls-of-polls -- sites that took many polls and averaged them together. While the actual result was a ways from many individual polls (I agree that Rasmussen seems to have been the best), it was pretty close to the overall average shown on sites like electoral-vote...
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It added to the evening.
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