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Nate Silver’s Magic Numbers Prove Rednecks Don’t Exist
Wonkette » top — ... Statistics freak Nate Silver was supposed to go away after the election, which he rigged with algebra or something in order to create the first black president, which is the ultimate political statistic, for masturbating. Now the fivethirtyeight.com sensation has a column in the gay fashion glossy, Esquire. It’s kind of interesting! Basically, Nate has figured out — using his patented number voodoo — that the worst people in America are literally disappearing, leaving a nation of sexy multi-racial city slickers who drive hybrids and do anal on first ...

Real America, cont'd
Ben Smith's Blog — ... thought for a while that one of Sarah Palin's key problems was that she was pitching her persona to a "real America" that just doesn't represent a majority of Americans, literally or aspirationally, any more, an America that would identify with the song "Redneck Girl" and disdain urban values. That's just not a constituency to win a national election any more, and the suburban woman whom Palin was supposed to woo didn't identify with that image. Nate Silver makes this point well in Esquire today in a piece on Obama's urban roots: We may ...

Daily Digest: Crafting Obama's Triangle of Press, Public, and Politics
techPresident — ... "[P]lant an organic Victory Garden at the White House." Ch-Ch-Changes.com: Two figures who made their mark on the Internets have new gigs worth noting. Former Wonkette and Time.com editor Ana Marie Cox has joined up with Air America as an on-air and online political correspondent. And Five Thirty Eight's numbers guy Nate Silver has a new Esquire column called...wait for it..."The Data." In Case You Missed It... ...

How Obama Really Won
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — It was the urban vote says Nate Silver: ...the future of America is an urban one — among the twenty largest metropolitan areas in 2000, nineteen had added population by 2007, a trend likely to sustain itself as rising gas prices place more pressure on exurban commuters. Republicans trail Democrats among essentially every fast-growing demographic except the elderly — the youth vote, the Latino vote; they never had the black vote. It is long past time that they hone their pitch to urban voters, and find their shining city upon a hill. ...

links for 2009-01-18
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... How Obama Won the Election in the Cities and Suburbs We have, of course, started to get a little ahead of ourselves. But the future of America is an urban one — among the twenty largest metropolitan areas in 2000, nineteen had added population by 2007, a trend likely to ...

Barack Obama: The First Urban President?
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right — Such is the case I make in a new feature at Esquire: If Bill Clinton was the first black president, then Barack Obama might be the first urban one. He is the only American president in recent history to seem unembarrassed about claiming a personal residence in a major American city. Instead, presidents have tended to hail from homes called ranches or groves or manors or plantations, in places called Kennebunkport or Santa Barbara or Oyster Bay or Northampton.The full article is here.