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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

Nate Silver

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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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I don't think you should limit what you read.
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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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Accountability doesn't mean apologizing.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
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Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.
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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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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
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