CU professor: Model predicting Romney win was "wrong"

[DemocratSinceBirth]

BOULDER — Back in August, University of Colorado political science professors Kenneth Bickers and Michael Berry won national attention for projecting an Electoral College romp for Republican Mitt Romney based on a model relying heavily on state-level economic factors such as unemployment data and changes in personal income.
The academics later updated their estimates based on new data and gave the Republican a bigger edge — 330 Electoral College votes to President Barack Obama's 208. Bickers appeared on Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor" and conservative talk radio.


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I would love to know the partisan identity of these two hacks.

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. No shit

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. I Wonder How They Were Feeling As Romney Was Losing In The Polls

They would have had to have been off by seven or eight percent. But I think there were other craptastic models. I saw a list of thirteen models and only eight favored the president.

As an aside there aren't many conservatives in academia but the conservative ones are usually the most vocal.

[sadbear]

3. I'm glad to see them finally eat their crow.

They've been avoiding it for so long.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. Good Social Science Research Should Be Value Free

The prescriptions for policy we make based on that research is up to us.

[JiminyJominy]

4. Nate Silver Called...

to say..

hahaahahahahahahahaahahahahaha DUMBASSES!!!

[amborin]

6. some posters kept citing this on Nate's blog....

[calico1]

7. Pity they went through all that work to only

get it all wrong.

They could have saved themselves the trouble if they had just kept up with the 7/11 poll or the Halloween mask sales. Those were correct as they always are.