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2012 Election Watch: Market ticks up after ACA ruling, but polling remains flat
The first major development in the 2012 US presidential race was handed down by the US Supreme Court on June 28 which found the Affordable Care Act to be constitutional. Did Obama receive a bump in the...
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The beautiful game is about to get a bit more by the numbers. Starting in 2013 the US soccer league – Major League Soccer – will begin using Adidas’ micoach elite system, which will track “heart rate,...
View Article2012 Election Watch: running mates and the polls
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s announcement on August 11 of Paul Ryan as his running mate drew a variety of responses, including cheers, jeers and even some comparisons to...
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2012 Election Watch: The money starts to move
It has been a rocky road for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney since we last checked in on the polls, and the money is starting to lose faith in the challenger. The Iowa Electronic Market...
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Election Watch 2012: Debates, volatility and the electoral college
When we started these posts for the 2012 election season, the goal was to give a purely numbers-driven look at the presidential election – a respite from the noise. Not that the media coverage isn’t...
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2012 Election Watch: No time to be wasting time
With the US presidential election race coming to an end tomorrow (we hope!), it is time to take one last one last look at the RealClearPolitics (RCP) poll average and the Iowa Electronic Markets (IEM)...
View ArticleUnderstanding American football, one standard deviation at a time
If you watched every American professional football team play every snap, analysed its success, compared it to all other plays in that situation, and then weighed it according to the defence it faced,...
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