Other people predicted all 50 states correctly too. And one guy, not Silver, even got the vote % in the states correct.

They are not kos kid liberals working for the NYT though, so they don’t get anointed King Prognosticator by the media.

Moesart on November 21, 2012 at 12:12 PM

Do these other people have names?

I wish people would stop treating him as some kind of oracle. Anyone looking at the RCP averages would’ve predicted an Obama victory, too.

changer1701 on November 21, 2012 at 10:02 AM

Then why isn’t there anybody else with his record? You can’t just believe something and make it so. Empirical analysis eludes the unscientific crowd.

Where are your predictions in writing since “anyone” could do it. What do you do for a living? Why aren’t you the one person who is on record as getting only one prediction wrong this election but Nate Silver is?

I know. I know. You’re too busy doing Civil War reenactments.

They are not kos kid liberals working for the NYT though, so they don’t get anointed King Prognosticator by the media.

More importantly for Nate, the state polls that he depended on the most did what Rasmussen and Gallup did not — they got the election right. That meant that Nate Silver got the election right. …

so Silver is a genius because he correctly predicted that the state polls would be correct?

well, I’ll be!

You guys are *still* pathetic.

lostmotherland on November 21, 2012 at 10:34 AM

Flat-earther rogerb is suspiciously absent. You’d think he’d have a field day on this.

Then again he’s incapable of posting in context and unedited comments that are actually relevant.

Yup, lots of insults were thrown at Nate Silver on Hotair… There should be a collective apology.

Part of me wants to look at Nate Silver, all the D+over9000 polls, and go, “Those poor SOBs won’t know what hit them in 6 days.”
And then I think about it some more: The Democrats figure if Five Thirty Eight and all them are wrong, and Romney wins, it can be like 2000, where a bunch of tl;dr about the Electoral College and state laws about deadlines for certifying the vote were turned into a rallying cry the Left can use to survive while out of power. They hope a lot of tl;dr about polling samples and likely voter filters as opposed to the actual vote can be used as a “Romney stole the election” cry to carry them into ’14 and ’16. It won’t hit the Left until the AP calls some state that they were assured by their masters they were going to win. Oh, a lightworker would never spend an election season lying, so they can’t get mad at the lying figures on the Left.
Sekhmet on October 31, 2012 at 2:52 PM

Silver, apparently spurred by this criticism and others, made this wager to Scarborough on Twitter on Thursday: “If you think it’s a toss-up, let’s bet. If Obama wins, you donate $1,000 to the American Red Cross. If Romney wins, I do. Deal?”
How about instead you retire from predicting Presidential election outcomes, Nate?
Doughboy on November 1, 2012 at 11:52 AM

Like I said on another thread, Nate Silver is backtracking:
Nate Silver @fivethirtyeight
We have Obama as ~80% likely to win Electoral College if popular vote is a tie. 98% if it’s O+1. 30% if it’s R+1.
So if the current D+5 national polls showing a tied race are off by a tiny % (likely), Obama’s chances drop to, er, 30%….imagine what they drop to if Romney wins by 2…LOL
I actually feel sorry for all the libtards who put their faith in this guy.
Norwegian on November 4, 2012 at 2:32 PM

You guys are *still* pathetic.