“I want what Nate Silver is smoking. But you’d have to live in California to get that stuff after today.”
I am not a pollster; but I do much work in statistics for a living. Silver is a careful statistician and highlights some of the problems of polling and statistics. Nothing he said in that article is weird or not a solidly supportable argument. And, he concedes up front he is going to look at the arguments that would suggest a better performance by rats than the polls suggest.
In other words, he’s not in stoner-land.
I understand that, but I am also a realist and I understand the media industry.
Silver gets paid by one of the most leftist of all leftist of the lame stream media to write provocative pieces that generate web traffic. He had to write this “piece” to appeal to the rabid moonbats that read that rag.