While I’m on vacation, I’m providing links here to some other writing about numbers from around the Web. When there’s a big margin in the popular vote in the presidential election, the Electoral College fades into the background. President-elect Barack Obama’s victory by more than six percentage points made his electoral-vote margin quite comfortable. But if the election is closer in 2012, congressional reapportionment — a tricky math problem I addressed earlier this year — ...

Australia's underage drinkers consume more than 175 million drinks a year and feed $107 million directly into government coffers, report says.

Here's some hope and change for you...Barack Obama will require students to partake in 50 of community service in middle and high school and 100 hours in college:Click to EnlargeDon't think for a minute that this won't include some kind of indoctrination:Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service ...

My print column this week notes the impressive accuracy of pre-election state polls in the presidential election, and the equally impressive performance of poll aggregators that combine all the disparate polling numbers into aggregate forecasts. Fivethirtyeight.com, the forecasting site created by baseball researcher Nate Silver, gained special prominence thanks to its cool-headed commentary, impressive graphics and rich data source. And Silver’s forecasts beat just about every pollster active in many states on Tuesday — the ...

A researcher at Montana State University has found a micro-organism that contains the essence of diesel. Myco-diesel, as Gary Strobel calls it, could fuel vehicles without any form of processing.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us

On Monday evening, with most pollsters done tracking the presidential race, the public survey numbers point to a victory for Sen. Barack Obama. Keep in mind that polls said the same about the New Hampshire Democratic primary, which Obama lost by two and a half percentage points to Sen. Hillary Clinton. Stipulating that these are hardly ironclad predictions, here’s a summary of the numbers. National popular vote: In recent polls, Obama’s lead ranges from 2 ...

Hasselbeck Slams Media--The View co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck and Sean Hannity are stumping with Governor Sarah Palin today in Florida.At a rally earlier today in Tampa Hasselbeck slammed the media for their sexist attacks on popular Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.Hasselbeck also complemented Palin for the accessories she wears-- like her flag pin:Elizabeth Hasselback focused on women's issues and her pro-life stance as reasons she supports Palin.

Dude... What's with all the awards?Charlie W. Williams of Raeford, N.C., a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars and supporter of Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama, lines up early to get into a rally at the Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville on Oct. 19. "He's going to get a lot of white votes," he said of his candidate. (Washington Times)Unfortunately, Charlie W. Williams is a phony soldier.This Ain't Hell has the scoop on this highly ...

It sounds like those first 10 years with Rev. Jeremiah Wright rubbed off on The One...The post racial candidate Barack Obama slams "white executives" living out in the suburbs who do not want to pay taxes to inner city children in a 1995 interview:Obama talks redistribution and salvation- bashes whitey:Obama admits his Redistribution of Wealth is to SAVE the African American community SO HE CAN ENSURE HIS OWN SALVATION! (and Our Countries Salvation) He compares ...

Are Barack Obama and John McCain equivalent to brands? A brand-consulting firm has been treating them as such, measuring the public’s support of the presidential candidates using techniques it honed in work on consumer goods. And the company’s chief executive says that if his numbers don’t correctly predict the election’s winner, he’ll shave his head on YouTube. David Rabjohns, chief executive of MotiveQuest LLC Since earlier this month, MotiveQuest LLC, of Evanston, Ill., has been ...

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