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Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.
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Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.
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If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
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First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
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A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.
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Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.
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In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
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The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.
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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
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I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
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Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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Success makes you less intimidated by things.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
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People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.
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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
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Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
Written by Nate Silver
I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.
Written by Nate Silver

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