President Obama may have garnered the most votes Tuesday night, but "polling data guru" Nate Silver appears to be the early victor in post-Election Day book sales. CNN reported that Silver, who runs the FiveThirtyEight blog for the New York Times, beat numerous political pundits as he "predicted the 49 states called by the networks Tuesday, and estimated that Florida would be essentially tied with Obama having a very slight edge."
Yesterday, sales of the book, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't, increased 850% at Amazon. It is currently the #2 book on the online retailer's top-100 list, behind Jeff Kinney's upcoming The Third Wheel, Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 7.