Obama: Headlines around the World
Some 700 prominent newspapers leading on Obama’s victory on November 4th are available to view спалниhere.
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The State of the Race
I’m of the opinion that Barack Obama won the U.S. Presidential Election about a month ago and, with 15 days to go, it seems my lack of caution may be appropriate.
Visiting FiveThirtyEight.com, an impressive project by Chicago-based statistician Nate Silver, the mathematics of the race becomes clear; Silver projects, using his exhaustive simulation model, that Barack Obama wins the election between 90% and 95% of the time (these figures are derived from 10,000 election simulations run by FiveThirtyEight.com). His poll averages have shown Obama consistently ahead for weeks.
Silver’s results were remarkably prescient during the Democratic primaries, and his method of aggregating polls is more sophisticated than other solutions like the Pollster.com composite or the Real Clear Politics average (both of which also currently project an Obama win).
At any rate, barring some major event, Obama will be the 44th President of the United States.
Multi-process Architecture in Google Chrome
The folks over at Chromium Blog have posted a lengthy write-up on multi-process architecture and how it applies to Google Chrome. It’s a must-read if you’re interested in this kind of thing.
Palin’s first gaffe
At a McCain rally today, Governor Sarah Palin made what many are already considering her first gaffe.
Speaking before voters in Colorado Springs, the Republican vice presidential nominee claimed that lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had "gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers."
This is a terrible mistake to make, given all the press focusing on the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac takeovers, but I think some may be making hay where none exists. I don’t buy that she does not know the relationship between the Federal Government and these institutions (anyone paying even loose attention to the credit crunch for the last few months would be more than informed), and I suspect this was simply a verbal misstep.
Frankly, I’m much more interested in her record (or lack thereof).
