To me, it’s especially gratifying that 2012 was a very good year for numbers-crunching nerd Nate Silver - Herkimer, NY - The Times

To me, it’s especially gratifying that 2012 was a very good year for numbers-crunching nerd Nate Silver

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By Pat Cunningham

To this humble blogger, it’s a matter of pride that I was singing the praises of political polling analyst Nate Silver for several years before he took his talents to The New York Times in August 2010 and thereby gained national renown.

What attracted me to Silver was that he is more a scientist than a political pundit. He cares more about what polling numbers say — and don’t say –  than about the conventional political wisdom peddled by the chattering classes and their agenda-driven sources of information.

Naturally, then, lots of pundits don’t like Silver. They don’t like the ...

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