Nate Silver is the talk of the internet today, and for good reason. When every news outlet on the planet was presenting the presidential race as a dead heat, the NYT’s political stats guru was giving Obama a greater than 90 percent chance of clinching a second term — a call he’s been making for weeks. In any case: the dude is probably a witch, and may or may not be riding the prescience-inducing high from a heavy hit of melange:
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In the future we won't elect presidents. We'll have a primary, then Nate Silver will go into a spice trance and pick the winner.
— 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙚 (@chsrdn) November 7, 2012
[@chsrdn via Craig McClain]
