So long and thanks for all the polls
When I started this site in October 2008, it was out of my admiration for the work that was being done by Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight during that year's U.S. presidential election. His site sparked a passion for political polling, election forecasts and psephology in me — and it has now become my full-time work.
After developing this site from amateurish to slightly-less-amateurish, I was lucky enough to secure regular freelance work with The Globe and Mail and The Hill Times in 2010 and The Huffington Post Canada in 2011, as well as election-related work with some French-language media outlets.
Things changed in 2014 when I begin working with the CBC in the run-up to the 2015 federal election. Since the beginning of that campaign I've been working out of the newsroom with the Parliamentary Bureau in Ottawa.
It's been a life-changing move, as well as an honour and an inspiration to work with such a talented and professional group of journalists every day.
Now, regular readers might have noticed that the activity on this site has died down in recent months. My work with the CBC has curtailed the time I've been able to invest in this website.
But now that I have accepted a full-time position with the Parliamentary Bureau, the time has come to cease operations of this site.
I hope readers will continue following my work with the CBC. In addition to your local CBC radio and television stations and CBC News Network, here is where you can find me:
- You can find my most recent articles and work here, as well as on the CBC Politics page.
- You can subscribe to my podcast, The Pollcast, here, and you can find and stream all of the episodes here.
ThreeHundredEight.com will be kept online and accessible as an archive and a reference, but it will no longer be updated.
I owe a debt of gratitude to my readers over the last nine years. Thank you for visiting ThreeHundredEight.com, for giving me your support and encouragement, for keeping me accountable and always striving to get better.
I've loved this site, but it is now time to move on to the next chapter. I'm excited about it.
