My understanding is that all Silver does is compile polls that heavily oversample Democrats.
close- he cherrypicks polls that figure in on his agenda....he’s gone out of his way to berate Rasmussen’s polls in the past even though the facts were on Rasmussen’s side:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/05/blast-from-rasmussen-past.html
Bingo! It’s clear that Silver understands numbers, but his underlying assumptions are subjective and shifting. The first red flag is the fact that he assigns a probability of victory. No pollster does that because that isn’t what pollsters do.
Yep. Garbage in, garbage out.