It’s pretty hilarious anyway.
Spoof mail website Daily Currant published a story that George Bush accidentally voted for Obama:
You can click the above image for the spoof. The real story, though, and I have it from “trusted sources,” is that Bush accidentally voted for Obama but was so embarrassed, he never told anyone.
And those who followed some of my comments know that I am a big believer in the analysis Nate Silver did in his election forecasts. This year, he was perfect in every state prediction, with the caveat that Florida is still outstanding. Even with Florida, he predicted an extremely close race in that state, that his odds were exactly 50/50. He did give the slight edge to Obama, and Obama currently has the lead in Florida.
Even days leading up to the election, his model gave Obama about an 80% chance of winning the election, which increased to 90% the day of the election when the last poll data did not show any bump for Romney.
A post on Gizmodo altered Chuck Norris jokes to apply to Nate Silver to show how awesome he is:
- When Alexander Bell invented the telephone he had 3 missed calls from Nate Silver.
- Nate Silver threw a grenade and killed 50 people, then it exploded.
- Nate Silver can delete the Recycling Bin.
- Nate Silver once got bit by a rattle snake. After three days of pain and agony… the rattle snake died.
- Nate Silver doesn’t use pickup lines, he simply says, “Now.”
- Nate Silver can suffocate a pillow with a man.
- Nate Silver once had a heart attack; his heart lost.
- Nate Silver doesn’t call the wrong number. You answer the wrong phone.
- Nate Silver can speak French… In Russian.
- When a zombie apocalypses starts, Nate Silver doesn’t try to survive. The zombies do.
- Ghosts sit around campfires and tell Nate Silver stories.
- Nate Silver lost his virginity before his dad did.
- Nate Silver beat Halo 1, 2, and 3 on Legendary with a broken Guitar Hero controller.
- Nate Silver can unscramble an egg.
- Some magicians can walk on water, Nate Silver can swim through land.
- Nate Silver can set ants on fire with a magnifying glass. At night.
- There used to be a street named after Nate Silver, but it was changed because nobody crosses Nate Silver and lives.
- Fear of spiders is arachnophobia, fear of tight spaces is claustrophobia, fear of Nate Silver is called Logic
- Nate Silver’s computer has no “backspace” button; Nate silver doesn’t make mistakes.
- Nate Silver can build a snowman out of rain.
- Nate Silver has already been to Mars; that’s why there’s no life there anymore.
- Nate Silver can hear sign language.
- Nate Silver can light a fire by rubbing two ice-cubes together.
- When Nate Silver does a pushup, he isn’t lifting himself up, he’s pushing the Earth down.
- Nate Silver beat the sun in a staring contest.
- Nate Silver can slam a revolving door.
Nate Silver received some notoriety among pundits this election season as they scoffed his forecast. “Morning Joe” Joe Scarbourgh said of Nate Silver: “And anybody that thinks that this race is anything but a toss-up right now is such an ideologue, they should be kept away from typewriters, computers, laptops and microphones for the next 10 days, because they’re jokes”. I think Joe Scarbourgh should be kept away from typewriters, computers, laptops, microphones, and broadcast TV for 10 years because he is such a joke.
On the same topic, Daily Currant posted an article where Nate Silver’s forecast model predicts that Joe Scarbourgh remains an asshole.
Because of all the criticism Nate Silver received by pundits on his forecast model, Geekosystem.com made a conclusion that Nate Silver’s forecast model was so accurate, that it must mean he is a witch. You can click the above image for the article.
Speaking of pundits, the nicest thing about Nate Silver’s forecast model being right (besides Obama winning) is the fact that it proves pundits to be obsolete. There were some pundits who were saying Romney would win 300 electoral votes. There were many pundits saying that the polls were wrong and skewed toward Democrats. Some pundits said that Romney would win the popular vote by 5%. Nate Silver’s model showed Obama winning by 2.5%. So far, per NBC, the actual count is 51.25% to 48.75%... A difference of 2.5%! Those pundits were only off by 9,000,000 votes!
I would hope that the networks get rid of the pundits… But that likely won’t happen. Hopefully people will learn that the pundits don’t provide any true insight and that they are only expressing their opinion, some of which may not be based on fact.
Hopefully the biggest loser of this election are people like Karl Rove and the Koch brothers. They had said they would put $1 billion into the election against the Democrats. Some billionaires were donating millions of dollars into the campaign. The ads were influential as Romney did receive 48.75% of the votes, but in the end, they lost. I hope those billionaires hesitate the next time Karl Rove asks them for money in the next election.
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