We probably should have blogged about this long ago, back when the site was new and wasn’t attracting zillions of visitors each day, but I would like to duly note, for the record, that U of C alum Nate Silver’s electoral projections site, fivethirtyeight, is the best political analysis on the web–or most anywhere, for that matter.Silver, a Baseball Prospectus editor, crunches the numbers so you don’t have to, and brings a degree of clarity to the murky underworld of political polling. He also lacks a pundit’s craving for hot air, making his non-expert analysis particularly insightful, and has a pretty neat ongoing series profiling the get-out-the-vote and canvassing efforts in various swing states. Please go there immediately and read everything.And, for the sake of Maroon self-promotion, here is my interview with Nate from 2007.