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2012 Election
10:56 am
Thu November 8, 2012

How Accurate Were Presidential Predictions In The 2012 Election?

Credit Joey Palacios / TPR
Nate Silver, who writes the FiveThirtyEight Blog was surprisingly accurate predicting President Obama's electoral vote count. The president shown here on his visit to San Antonio this summer.

There were several notable predictions made leading up to the General Election on Nov. 6, and since the first debate the opinion polls were twisting the odds this way and that. Now that the results are in, we can see who had the right idea, and who was just guessing.

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Government
11:02 pm
Thu October 4, 2012

Politicit Makes Elections Predictions Based on Social Media Chatter

No one has a crystal ball to predict the upcoming election results, but one man says he's close.

A year ago, Josh Light says he introduced his web site, Politicit, which gives candidates an "it" score based on social media chatter and main stream media reports.

"You take all this data based on what people are doing and saying on the internet, we put it through a machine learning algorithm, and then it gives us a score we call an "it" score, and it correlates with election results," he said.

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