Obama Campaign Says It Was 42 Percent More Accurate Than Nate Silver
"It was obvious on Election Night that the Obama campaign had had a much clearer view of the race than Romney . . ."
And to Karl Rove they said, “In your face beeatch’!
The Obama folks make two big claims: that they were more accurate—and more accurate earlier in the race—than their competitors. To back this up, they agreed to share, for the first time, the results of their own nightly forecasting model, code-named “Golden,” that was based on 62,000 simulations of the November election and distributed each day at 2 p.m. to David Axelrod, Jim Messina, and the rest of the campaign’s brain trust.
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