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

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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
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Success makes you less intimidated by things.
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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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Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.
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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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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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People have different ways of interpreting history.
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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 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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If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
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