So this week's post could only be about one thing: the presidential election. The election had many interesting aspects to it. With Obama's victory, Obamacare will be here to stay, as well as more taxes on the wealthy, and the showdown between Obama and the House Republicans that has gone on for so long. The race probably came as shock to many people, such as Newt Gingrich who predicted Romney to have over 300 electoral votes, and George Will, who stupidly predicted Romney to win Minnesota. But out of this mess cam one man, Mr. Nate Silver, who correctly predicted all 50 states, Florida as by far the closest state, and Ohio as the tipping point state to put Obama over 270. He put the pundits who predicted an extremely close race in their place, and as he said in an appearance on the Colbert Report "When 23 state polls come out and 22 of them have Obama in the lead, its no longer just a coin flip." Nate proved that poll analysis and arithmetic can triumph over Gingrich's "years of experience. So my advice to those interested in having an idea about elections shut off the stupid pundits and look at real math at http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/