{"id":11527,"date":"2008-09-27T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/27\/election-projections\/"},"modified":"2008-09-27T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T12:59:00","slug":"election-projections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/27\/election-projections\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Projections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/election-projection.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">US Presidential Election 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>uses computer simulation to calculate the probability of Obama or McCain winning the presidential election based on recent polls. It also includes a unique feature, BattleRank which ranks the states most likely to swing the election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FiveThirtyEight<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>accumulate[s] and analyze[s] polling and political data in way that is informed, accurate and attractive. Most narrowly, to give you the best possible objective assessment of the likely outcome of upcoming elections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"byline\">[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/74485\/State-of-the-Presidential-Race\" title=\"via MetaFilter\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a>]<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/politics\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/election\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">election<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/2008\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">2008<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/map\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">map<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/blog\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/news\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">news<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-7123747660387122288?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Presidential Election 2008 uses computer simulation to calculate the probability of Obama or McCain winning the presidential election based on recent polls. It also includes a unique feature, BattleRank which ranks the states most likely to swing the election. FiveThirtyEight accumulate[s] and analyze[s] polling and political data in way that is informed, accurate and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/27\/election-projections\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Election Projections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-11527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}