Nate Silver schooled the clueless anecdotal echoers at FR like it was nobody’s business. I have never seen someone who was so derided by the masses here turn the tables on us so convincingly and so completely. It was an utter failure of FR contributors in ignoring polls and creating fantastic conspiracy theories to debunk them. Silver single-handedly eviscerated the establishment opinion on FR.
I'm however, highly optimistic. Obama was/is the Dems golden child. The Dems wont get turnout like this again for a while. All is not lost.
If the GOP goes down the round of pandering to minorities, then they are finished though.