Maps on FiveThirtyEight.com Fail to Impress

I guess Nate Silver didn't take a cartography course in college but he must have aced his stat class. The maps on FiveThirtyEighty.com serve simply as a guide to Silver's predictions where he now sees Obama capturing 348 electoral votes. Silver apparently also predicted the Tampa Bay Rays "last to first" showing so he's in demand to accurately call the electoral vote count for the presidential election.

Silver explains his map to Keith Olbermann on MSNBC...

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