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Nate Silver isnt the wiz kid you made him out to be. no need to defend and apologize. He's totally discredited.

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NO.

the clown, buckeye, will be here soon to defend nate plastic.

and then tell you how it wasnt his fault.

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Nate Silver isnt the wiz kid

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I read one of his articles trying to justify himself. He said if only one in a hundred Trump voters had switched their vote to Clinton, she would have won.

This guy could try to spin a picture of a turd into a rose.

The pollsters are defending themselves exactly as I predicted

Silver was so defensive about any questioning of polls and his model. His fanboys just pointed to 2012 and the the later primaries...bozos

Yep. Reminds me of the Arkansas weatherman I as watching a few years back - "and tomorrow's forecast is a 60% chance of 30% snow."

I chewed on that for a while and never did get it digested.

Nate Dumbass has been destroyed. He has no credibility anymore.

Can't wait for the heckling and mocking he'll get when he publishes anything.

Dude should look for another line of work like weather forecasting.

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People defend him by saying he isn't a pollster

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he rates them and weighs them and he defends his model against pollster inaccuracies

so there's really no defense.

he'll always nail the later primaries because the variables become fewer and you have data to go on.

he's a sports nerd who nailed one presidential election that everyone and their mom could have. Joe Scarborough was the only one calling out his bullshite in 2012.

I predicted 47/50 states without data at all (well except NC, I went pretty hardcore into that one and actually put a number on it)

he's a total fricking fraud.

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Trafalgar

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Any possibility this ends up being the name of some erroneous frog god?

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buckeye_vol

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Nate Silver isnt the wiz kid you made him out to be.

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If I recall correctly, he tweeted or announced some other way that Trump had won the election around 8:30 CST.

I think he went dark for a while after that.

I haven't slept much since Tuesday night, so it may all be running together.

ETA: Let me be clear, I'm not defending this clown. He is certainly a DNC surrogate.
I'm saying he was the first clown to admit Trump won and he got it wrong. It was almost like Josh Chamberlains last post in 2012.

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Midget death squad

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What is so funny? He gave Trump an almost 30% chance of winning and was criticized by many on the left for giving Trump that chance. He even discussed the possibility of the Popular Vote-EC split that occured, and gave that single scenario a better chance of occurring than most other models gave Trump winning across all possible outcomes.

The Odds Of An Electoral College-Popular Vote Split Are Increasing

Now unless your criticisms are Nassim Taleb's criticism that the data would be better modeled as a Weiner Process/Brownian Motion/Stochastic process--in which case the even election model (for every election) would hover around 50/50 until right before the election--then what are your criticisms?