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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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All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.
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I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
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When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen
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First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
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I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.
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In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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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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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.
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