Posts Tagged ‘us election’

TONY POTTS: Barack Obama Tweets Victory in 2012 Presidential Election

Posted: November 7, 2012 by Tony Potts in Uncategorized
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I love the fact that our President tweeted thanks before giving his victory speech. Such a sign of the times. Also the fact that Mitt Romney didn’t tweet a thanks for all of his supporters shows the difference in the candidates, the campaign and what may have tipped the election a bit.

Team Obama’s ability to reach women and young voters via social media. Wait until the books are written on this election…the good, researched books…and they will reveal an excellent social media ground-game by Team Obama. President Obama out-tweeted Mitt Romney 8-1. In addition, watch it copied and improved upon by candidates in the next presidential race.

Barack Obama Tweets Victory in 2012 Presidential Election.

TONY POTTS: Why You Should Rarely Listen To The Pundits/Here’s The Official 2012 Election Predictions/Yet Another Reason To Never Listen to George Will

Posted: November 7, 2012 by Tony Potts in Uncategorized
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This is a fascinating collection of all the pundits, who are usually wrong more than 50% of the time (which you could do better by flipping a coin, literally AND seriously) and who they predicted to win the Presidential Election.

The guy at the top of the list, Nate Silver, is the only guy you should ever listen to about serious issues because of the way he comes to his conclusions. Oh, and you can’t call him a pundit. Because he’s not. He’s a an American statistician, sabermetrician, psephologist, and writer. He predicted 49 out of 50 states in 2008 and all Senate Races. And predicted tonight.

Read just the first 50-pages of his excellent book, “The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t” and you’ll never listen to a pundit again or at least without laughing.

Pundit accountability: The official 2012 election prediction thread.