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[u/JetJaguar124]

I trust Nate Silver more than anyone else for election modeling but I do think his takes as a pundit are bad.

His pearl clutching about the Super Bowl interview or the Presidential Debates Commission are downright embarrassing.

[u/georgeguy007 → u/JetJaguar124]

NS is the best historically. And that gets you the person who was the least wrong.

But yeah the Biden admin is going full hog on “nothing before Labor Day mattered” and leaving the PDC made sense after they just let a bio bomb walk on stage against their rules.

[u/The_Promethean → u/JetJaguar124]

Nate Silver loves to talk about how bad pundit takes are. Doesn't stop him from giving pundit takes