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I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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