Since I left some obvious candidates from the first installment, let's do another.
Elliott Spitzer
The former governor of New York only did two notable things this year, but they were huge. First, he joined Ted Kennedy in the list of Top Ten Most Shockingly Sudden Falls from Grace by a Major Politician (see the two-part special on C-Span 3.) Second, he introduced the handy three- to seven-diamond scale for rating prostitutes. Sadly, the cheap bastard only sprung for a three.
Nate Silver
At the beginning of the year, Nate Silver was an anonymous Baseball Prospectus author, notable mostly for not being the one who changed gender. But after the success of the election predictions in his fivethirtyeight site, he got a $700K advance for writing two books and became a fixture on cable news programs like the Colbert Report.
Paul Krugman
Other than winning a Nobel Prize, being proven right on many of his criticism of the current administration, getting the perfect chance to rerelease a book about Depression Economics and being on every cable news show ever, it wasn't a notable year for Prof. Krugman. At this point his NYT blog is required reading.
Voting begins next Wednesday when the election committee meets.
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I shall abstain from voting, as you only have one broad, and she's crazy.
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