Jacob Kaplan-Moss

The Inauguration of President Barack Obama - The Big Picture - Boston.com

As expected, The Big Picture wins for best coverage of the inauguration. I love the interplay between the close-up press access photos and the crowds of people watching in person and on TV around the world.

(barackobama, election, election2008, inauguration, photojournalism, usa)

FiveThirtyEight: Ten Reasons Why You Should Ignore Exit Polls

I'll try, Nate, but … can I just peek a little bit? Just once or twice?

(election, election2008, exitpolls, fivethirtyeight, politics, polling)

Presidential Endorsements 2008

In 2004 I wrote a little tool to track presidential endorsements; I've updated it for this election. Even more lopsided this time around.

(election, election2008, endorsements, presidential)

How Nate Silver Went From Forecasting Baseball Games to Forecasting Elections — New York Magazine

FiveThirtyEight has firmly wedged its way into the small list of sites I read obsessively.

(algorithms, baseball, data, election, election2008, fivethirtyeight, politics, sports, statistics)

The scariest thing about Sarah Palin isn't how unqualified she is - it's what her candidacy says about America | The Smirking Chimp

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(2008, election, palin, taibbi)

FEC: Download Detailed Files by Election Cycle

Raw FEC disclosure data, from the horse's mouth.

(data, election, fec, publicdata)

Schneier on Security: Hacking the Papal Election

(election, papal)