Nate Silver as Resentment Symbol

[babsbunny]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/31/nate-silver-as-resentment-symbol.html

by Michael Tomasky Oct 31, 2012 12:30 PM EDT

Nate Silver should take pride in these dumb attacks, because all they mean is that the wingers fear deep down that he's right. He's not a liberal, or if he is or is not, I don't really know, but it's totally irrelevant. He's a numbers guy who wants more than anything to get it right. If his models told him Romney had a 75 percent chance of winning, that's what he'd publish. Anyone who thinks otherwise is the actual ideologue, as well as pretty much an idiot.

Sure, liberals have taken comfort in his findings, but what does that have to do with him? He's a bookmaker, in essence. If the bookies in Vegas keeping giving the Falcons better odds at winning the NFC than the Bears, do Bears fans go ballistic on the bookies and try to blame them if it turns out that Atlanta does win the NFC? Of course not. That would be totally preposterous, just as this Silver-bashing is totally preposterous now.

[11 Bravo]

1. +1

[MissMarple]

2. Good observation.

Nate Silver is a bookie.

[SubgeniusHasSlack]

3. republickcons' pointy heads will explode

when he is proven accurate on Tuesday.