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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.

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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
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If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama leads 19 out of 20 swing-state polls, then you should abandon the pretense that your goal is to inform rather than entertain the public.
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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
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The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times. And so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.
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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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Success makes you less intimidated by things.
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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
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