fivethirtyeight.com

FiveThirtyEight analysis: Dayton has a 77 percent chance of winning gov’s race

Polling guru Nate Silver, of the FiveThirtyEight blog, has released his latest analysis of gubernatorial contests across the country. The upshot: Mark Dayton has a 77 percent chance of winning the governor's race based on polling results that have been released so far.

538.com pollster ratings: Who’s got the mojo, who does not

Nate Silver, the baseball/sabermetrics guru who brought a new level of sophistication to the analysis of political numbers when he launched fivethirtyeight.com in March 2008, posted a revised set of numbers on the most accurate political pollsters in the land last month -- and there are a few points of local interest.

Pawlenty 2012: Nate Silver dubs TP "hockey dad," casts a new light on his approval ratings

Polling guru Nate Silver, of the FiveThirtyEight blog, has released his latest analysis of gubernatorial contests across the country. The upshot: Mark Dayton has a 77 percent chance of winning the governor’s race based on polling results that have been released so far. That’s actually a one percentage point dip from Silver’s previous assessment of ...