ncsualum05 said:
PackDaddy said:
I hope Trump wins just to prove 538 polls wrong. I believe Nate Silver is a scam more so than the rest.
He's a partisan hack and a scam artist. His website is bull***** And he needs to shut up on twitter too. He's saying dangerous things that are encouraging the inevitable cries of cheating from the left after they lose. Hope he is dumbfounded on election night and never taken seriously again. Of course he was completely wrong in 2016 too and that didn't seem to slow down his propaganda.
I don't understand why people get angry when polls show something other than what they want them to show. Be angry at the polls, not the people that report or average them.
It's not like Silver runs the polls. He average the polls, reports on trends, and creates a model to forecast elections based on poll data.
If he's a scam artist hack, why did his model do so well in 2008 and 2012 (and did fine in 2016, although it's obvious your head's not in a place to be objective about that).
What is he saying that's dangerous?