Shared by timlauer
For me the best thing about the media coverage of the 2008 election is the work that Nate Silver did. Also anyone who comes up with PECOTA is simply a genius...

Nate Silver owned this election on the polling front: one young guy with a background in baseball stats beat out the mainstream media in a couple of months. And he beat out the old web: I mean if you consider the total joke of Drudge's recent coverage and compare it with Silver's, you realize that the web is a brutal competitive medium where only the best survive - and they are only as good as their last few posts.