Panic is Delicious
…In the 2012 election, as long as Obama was inevitable, he was inevitable. Beyond the pundits, there was the emerging belief that the macro polling models of guys like Nate Silver could not be wrong....
View ArticleThe Rise of the Libertarians
Duke Cheston writes: Much of the recent growth in libertarian activism emerged after Ron Paul’s 2008 failed presidential bid, when Jeff Frazee, Paul’s national youth coordinator, founded Young...
View ArticleIs There a Wonk Bubble?
No, but there’s a Pundit Bubble… Felix Salmon writes: Call it the Wonk Bubble. If you’re in the market for serious, empirical, quantitative analysis of national policy—or of just about anything else in...
View ArticleIs Hillary Clinton’s Messaging Strategy Straight from the 1988 Dukakis...
Hillary Clinton: Dukakis in a Pantsuit? Yes, I confess, this is mainly an excuse to use this really scary photo of Hillary. We already know what Mrs. Clinton looks like in a pantsuit. But how many of...
View ArticleReality Check: Is an Ebola Flight Ban a Good Idea? Nate Silver Doesn’t Think So
It’s exceedingly rare that I agree with an Obama administration decision (though the decision is infirm, and could be weaseled any way the wind blows over the next several weeks) but the increasing...
View ArticlePrediction: Nate Silver, 2:00 PM ET
Nate Silver, 2:00 PM ET pic.twitter.com/UavinLPlvq — pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) November 4, 2014 Filed under: Food & Drink, Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank Tagged: Coffee, Data Mining, Election...
View ArticleNate Silver Blinded By Gods For Seeking Forbidden Knowledge Of Future
NEW YORK—Enraged by his public pronouncements regarding that which is yet to be, the almighty gods on high are said to have blinded political statistician Nate Silver this week as punishment for...
View Article[VIDEO] Silver Discusses Clinton’s Polling Vulnerabilities Heading into...
Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, Politics Tagged: Hillary Clinton, Nate Silver, news, Presidential Campaign 2016, video, Washington Free Beacon
View ArticlePlan Your Wednesday Morning Hangover
…Trump leads in Florida by a minuscule 0.2 percent as I write this; in New Hampshire, it’s Clinton by 0.6 percent, and that’s helped along by the dubious 11-point lead she had in the WMUR poll of the...
View ArticleStatistician: After Researching Gun Violence, I No Longer Believe in Gun...
‘The case for the policies I’d lobbied for crumbled when I examined the evidence.’ Allahpundit writes: Her name is Leah Libresco, formerly of Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight site, where she crunched the...
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