Predicting the Winner: The Untold Story of Election Night 1952 and the Dawn of Computer Forecasting - Hardcoverby Ira Chinoy (Author) The history of American elections changed profoundly on the night of November 4, 1952. An outside the box approach to predicting winners from early returns with new tools computers was launched live and untested on the newest medium for news: television. Like exhibits in a freak show, computers were referred to as "electronic brains" and "mechanical monsters." Yet this innovation would help fuel an obsession with numbers as a