Andrew Sullivan Takes Up For Nate Silver
In an interview with TNR‘s Isaac Chatiner published Tuesday, Politico co-founders John Harris and Jim VandeHei took swipes at Nate Silver, the number-crunching NY Times journalist who correctly predicted all 50 states’ outcome in the 2012 presidential election.
VandedHei said he didn’t have time to read his election coverage, but while he admires the brand Silver’s been able to build, he “roll[s] his eyes at how he gets up on his high horse quite a lot.” Harris accused Silver of “trying to use numbers to prove stuff” that Harris doesn’t think can be proved by numbers (he didn’t offer examples).
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