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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: neolib who wrote (761751)1/6/2014 3:02:25 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 1574703
 
>> It got to the point where the politicians took to believing the polls they liked, and the polling organizations were starting to cater to their respective "clients" until Nate Silver came along and taught them all a lesson.

That's really not accurate.

What happened is that Nate Silver took the polls at 100% face value, and they turned out to be right.

The Right-leaning talking heads thought the polls were not accurately reflecting turnout because they weren't taking into account the Obama campaign's ability to get the totally uninformed idiots to vote.

Obama was able to do that, which is why he was reelected (obviously, no informed person who wasn't a left wing nutjob would have voted for him).
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