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...may someone explain FiveThirtyEight? [[User:Greyson|Greyson]] ([[User talk:Greyson|talk]]) 15:34, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
 
...may someone explain FiveThirtyEight? [[User:Greyson|Greyson]] ([[User talk:Greyson|talk]]) 15:34, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
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:[http://twitter.com/fivethirtyeight FiveThirtyEight] {{Wiktionary|AFAIK}} is the Twitter handle (and the name of his blog, which is now a part of the [http://fivethirtyeight.com NY Times]) of statistician Nate Silver. He may have chosen to use that handle as it is the number of votes in the Electoral College. And now that I've done all that research, I might copy this into the explanation. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]])  17:13, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

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...may someone explain FiveThirtyEight? Greyson (talk) 15:34, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

FiveThirtyEight AFAIK is the Twitter handle (and the name of his blog, which is now a part of the NY Times) of statistician Nate Silver. He may have chosen to use that handle as it is the number of votes in the Electoral College. And now that I've done all that research, I might copy this into the explanation. lcarsos_a (talk) 17:13, 19 November 2012 (UTC)