Reader Mail: Poll Data

Somebody out there gets it:

The world is taking note of your voting models!


Looking at your data from 11/6/08, 10:35 AM,


M: 4958274609827
O: 4509845618907
M: 6783649347856
O: 296528e76rw50
M: r978ert70q9869
O: w678529874659
M: 1284576197863
O: 4958762345079
M: 8756196745q65
O: 1231231240468
M: 2084702r73045
O: 7614011789650


you only showed us the first 12 data points here–I think you would have really turned the political world on its head if you continued this trend with an epsilon argument of .82–so I can only extrapolate from there.


Later that day, Obama gave his first post-election press conference. If we look at the first 12 capitalized words in his prepared remarks:


This
The
October
In
Americans
Tens
Their
Now
United
States
January
I


If we take the md5 checksum of each of these words, we get


77631ca4f0e08419b70726a447333ab6
a4704fd35f0308287f2937ba3eccf5fe
eca60ae8611369fe28a02e2ab8c5d12e
efeb369cccbd560588a756610865664c
165813154207e6cacef030430ea09616
3520ceb310cfd1854963293f755fce95
1fb40af155860ea26b4adb2f6049349d
1e1cc9bdeb2f29f5480106aec7e9bc48
a6590794f2fd66738d3a0f28a4857762
b8464cdd84b5f068ad72bf5c4f32163d
86f5978d9b80124f509bdb71786e929e
dd7536794b63bf90eccfd37f9b147d7f


Now to compare this with your data, we can use the fact that the dual space of a normed space is ALWAYS a Banach space to arrive at the following map from R12 to R12


\hat f(x) = \sum_{j=1}^{12} \tau_{j_0} \alpha_2^\prime
(see attachment)


this provides an isometry which EXACTLY MAPS YOUR DATA TO OBAMA’S WORDS. It is as if your wrote the speech for him! What is remarkable is that it is so simple, it is a theoretical impossibility that this is merely a coincidence.


10:35 AM… mnftiu releases numbers… 2:53 PM… Obama codes these numbers into speech…


Is this a new golden age of mnftiu.cc… the dominant blog of the 19th-22nd century?? You are putting MATHEMATICAL COMMUNITY AT LARGE ON NOTICE!

This is why I blog — for the community. For the user-generated research that will define the new century as “Party-Time Century, USA.”

Nate Silver, your days are numbered! (LOL, “numbered.”)

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