Shooting the Messenger’s Numbers: Nate Silver’s Struggle (The Redux)

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By Mobutu Sese Seko

Nate Silver, the famed statistician behind the FiveThirtyEight election forecast blog at the New York Times, is wrong. And gay. At least according to the more virulent elements of right-wing media. That he’s wrong is only confirmed by his gayness, just as surely as his gayness is the source of his wrongness. Nate Silver is a tautology of being queer as hell about everything.

Hardcore conservatism’s loathing of science has lurked around GOP politics for so long that its easy to forget how nasty it is. Over 40 years, that disdain has slid from “pointy-headed intellectuals” to something very like a jock slapping a math book out of a kid’s hands and saying, “NICE NUMBERS, FAG.” But this is what you do when you can’t crunch the numbers yourself or when they will not save you. You shoot the messenger.

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I think Nate Silver is the only thing getting me through this week.

Nov. 3 2012
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    It is an excellent article. However, to be technical, Silver has not projected Obama’s victory — only an 80% chance of...
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    Excellent post on the recent scuffle between Nate Silver and Joe Scarborough on polls projecting Obama’s electoral...
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    I think Nate Silver is the only thing getting me through this week.
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    i still really like that there is a really good blogger who goes by Mobutu Sese Seko, thanks.
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