I was going to post this in response to Desidero on a different thread, but figured I could just share w/ the whole class!

There's a freaky blog up by Nate Silver (for baseball nuts he's the one with the PECOTA algorithm that predicts player and team performance with scary accuracy).  Silver's algorithm also predicted primary results down to the percentage split.  Anyway, it seems that polls are good predictors when you pull vast quantities of data from the right responses, combine them with demographic data and voting patterns from past elections and monitor them over the long term - very cool!

I heard this as an aside on CNN and it turns out it's true.  Florida and Michigan had their full votes reinstated.  And Florida got front row seating (couldn't tell if Michigan also got princess treatment).

WTF?

Why did the DNC put us through all these shenanigans if they were going to just give them full-seating later?  And, what does this say to the leaders of those states who created the shenanigans in the first place (especially since Michigan in particular has made primary-jumping a habit)?  Hold out long enough and you'll get your way?  What a crock!

And...in the interest of full-disclosure, I've been an Obama supporter since he was in the Illinois legislature.  At the time, I thought the outcome of the DNC meeting earlier this summer was fair.  But, right now I can't help but feel Sen. Clinton got screwed with her pants on.  Why take away a chance to continue only to hand it back when it's too late?  Does this open a back door for the Clintons?

Sorry for the rant...but, it's late, I haven't posted in nearly two months and I feel compelled to call SHENANIGANS!

I still like Obama...not sure about the Party, though.