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Silver is NOT a pollster.
And if he was, NOBODY has turned their "decision making" over to him.
Polls measure public sentiment, they don't shape it.
There has been just about one constant up for discussion in an electoral season filled with tumultuous polling: Nate Silver.
Nate Silver is the statistician and poll-watching guru who rose to prominence in 2008 by developing a poll aggregation model that correctly predicted 49 of 50 states in that year's presidential contest. He has since been hired by the New York Times and gained more prominence with his up-to-the-minute analysis on new polls and the state of the presidential race.
Conservatives have attacked Silver relentlessly for his model that predicts that President Obama with a 70%+ chance to win...
You have a problem. You make everyone look "clever"
You mean like how successful that the marxist policies of your messiah have been?
Try again you, mindless prog.
There, I corrected it for you.
I find it hysterical that ANYONE thinks I'm a big Obama supporter. I guess if you possess simple binary brain function in a black and white Manichean world, everything must be either 'a' or 'b'.
Real people don't think that way - that appears to be unique to Town Hall nutters.
I bet you believe that you're clever...
That's not very objective. Polls have two functions. First of course, polls shape public sentiment for liberals because they base things on their emotions. Liberals like to "feel" like they are winning.
Polls are intended to shape public opinion for conservatives, because they base things on their reasoning. Liberal pollsters want conservatives to believe polls are factual. Conservatives love facts so let's invent some for them.
Botom line.....polls are invented to make public sentiment and opinion, not take it.