Nate Silver dumps on Politico: Politico Covers Politics Like Sports
Nate Silver: Politico Covers Politics Like Sports But Not In An Intelligent Way At All
New York Times polling guru Nate Silver took aim at Politicos brand of reporting on Friday, saying the Washington-based news outlet covers politics like sports but not in an intelligent way at all.
Reflecting on Politicos pre-election criticism of his FiveThirtyEight model, Silver told Grantlands Bill Simmons on his B.S. Report podcast:
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What was remarkable to me is that you had some, like, journalist for, um, Politico, or something
who, like, tweeted
All Nates doing is averaging polls and counting electoral votes?
Thats the secret sauce? Its like, well, yeah, and the fact that you cant comprehend that very basic thing
that says more about you than, than about me, right?
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