Jeepers creepers, any idiot can aggregate polls and predict winners. Silver is only right if the polls are right. The pollsters deserve the credit.
And as a math person, I’m highly annoyed at the implication that if I think Silver is overrated then I don’t get math.
Your right -- and the pollsters got no credit. Critics of Silver were claiming that he was wrong, in part, because the polls were wrong. They weren't.