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Nate Silver: Win the Cities, Win America

Fast-growing urban demographic handed Obama election victory

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 15, 2009 8:54 PM CST

(Newser) – Barack Obama's strength in cities won him the election, meaning he "might be America's first urban" president, statistics whiz Nate Silver writes in Esquire. Obama's "pragmatic, superior, hip, stubborn, multicultural" ways make him unmistakably urban, Silver writes, and America's changing demographics mean that... Read full story »

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