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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNate Silver tweet of the century:
Nate Silver ?@fivethirtyeight
Unskewedpolls argument: Nate Silver seems kinda gay + ??? = Romney landslide!
https://twitter.com/fivethirtyeight/status/262077837564076032
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Nate Silver tweet of the century: (Original Post)
Coexist
Oct 2012
OP
I'm going to keep this link up so I can have a really great laugh on election night...
Hyper_Eye
Oct 2012
#4
renate
(13,776 posts)1. nice sense of humor!
TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)2. here's the article Nate is mocking about him....
Last edited Sat Oct 27, 2012, 06:40 PM - Edit history (1)
http://www.examiner.com/article/the-far-left-turns-to-nate-silver-for-wisdom-on-the-polls?cid=db_articles"Nate Silver is a man of very small stature, a thin and effeminate man with a soft-sounding voice that sounds almost exactly like the Mr. New Castrati voice used by Rush Limbaugh on his program. In fact, Silver could easily be the poster child for the New Castrati in both image and sound. Nate Silver, like most liberal and leftist celebrities and favorites, might be of average intelligence but is surely not the genius he's made out to be. His political analyses are average at best and his projections, at least this year, are extremely biased in favor of the Democrats."
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"He claims to have been highly accurate in predicting the 2008 election results, and perhaps he was. But it's highly unlikely his current methods and projections will have the level of accuracy unless he changes then quite a lot between now and election day. The race has shifted profoundly in favor of Mitt Romney while Nate Sillver is still projecting an Obama win. Unless he changes that, the credibility he earned in 2008 will be greatly diminished after this years election."
My fave line is the one about 'He claims to... be accurate"
Uh they are not claims like having faith in an invisible God dude.
They are actual results you can confirm and look up in the historical record.
The GOP - Denying Facts Since 1972.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)5. I love the smell of R desperation
Bango
BOOM!!!
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)11. That guy is a loon.
I am going to love to see his site on November 7th.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)3. I just had to retweet and respond to that
thanks for posting
Hyper_Eye
(675 posts)4. I'm going to keep this link up so I can have a really great laugh on election night...
PCIntern
(25,532 posts)8. They do give CA to Obama...
Credit where credit is due...
Marmitist
(64 posts)12. Dear God...
The guy who put together that electoral map is a fucking lunatic. Oregon going for Romney? What parallel universe does this guy live in?
Indpndnt
(2,391 posts)6. Okay, that's an awesome response to that article.
Thekaspervote
(32,755 posts)7. Love ya Nate just keep up your great work
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)10. They know Romney is going to lose, they know he's behind in the polls
but they are claiming he's "got momentum". This way when Obama kicks his ass they can claim voter fraud because the outcome didn't match "their" polls.