Election
Election
[Cueball sits at his computer desk, staring at his computer.]
Cueball: It's over. Cueball: After twenty months it's finally over. Cueball: I don't have to be an election junkie anymore.
[Close-up of Cueball's face and screen.]
Cueball: I don't have to care about opinion polls, exit polls, margins of error, attack ads, game-changers, tracking polls, swing states, swing votes, the Bradley effect, or <name> the <occupation>. Cueball: I'm free.
[Cueball staring at his computer screen, full shot.] [Cueball types on his computer.] Tap Tap
[On screen:] Google '2012 polling statistics'

This comic was published the day after the 2008 presidential election in the US. Cueball has been closely following the quantitative aspect of the election for over a year and a half, and he seems to be relieved that it's over. Now that the election has passed, he does not have to follow the many different opinion polls, number-crunching analyses, and news clips about people like Joe the Plumber that he has kept close track of during the election season. As soon as he says this, however, he starts to search for information on the 2012 election , suggesting that his political obsession has not at all passed.
A list of the elements Cueball had been thinking about:
The title text is about statistician Nate Silver , who became something of a geek celebrity for his analysis during the campaign. He correctly predicted the outcomes of 49 of the 50 states in the 2008 election on his blog. It jokes that having him predict the outcomes of life decisions would make choosing the best thing to do very easy. So if Cueball ask Nate - "Should I sleep with her?", then Nate could give him a forecast like this: "Well, I'm showing a 35% chance it will end badly." Later, in 2016, Nate Silver's website, FiveThirtyEight, launched an advice column thus making the title text partially come true.
[Cueball sits at his computer desk, staring at his computer.]
Cueball: It's over. Cueball: After twenty months it's finally over. Cueball: I don't have to be an election junkie anymore.
[Close-up of Cueball's face and screen.]
Cueball: I don't have to care about opinion polls, exit polls, margins of error, attack ads, game-changers, tracking polls, swing states, swing votes, the Bradley effect, or <name> the <occupation>. Cueball: I'm free.
[Cueball staring at his computer screen, full shot.] [Cueball types on his computer.] Tap Tap
[On screen:] Google '2012 polling statistics'
