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What? At the time, people were lambasting him for saying Trump had a 30% chance, and I know people who think he was too smug after getting 2016 right. I mean, I
by DragonStrength 3y ago
What? At the time, people were lambasting him for saying Trump had a 30% chance, and I know people who think he was too smug after getting 2016 right. I mean, I know this is the internet and people can say whatever they want, but come on.
- add-sub-mul-div 3y agoThese are the people who got their feelings hurt over a culture war and lash out at Silver because he's become vaguely mainstream synonymous with political projections. Nobody with a serious position and serious attention on this would criticize Silver. It was the Buzzfeed types that gave Clinton a much higher chance.
- stonogo 3y agoNo, literally everyone gave Clinton a much higher chance. I think FiveThirtyEight is mostly a clickbait circus, but they were the only serious prediction organization who rated Trump's chances as high as they did.
- beerpls 3y ago[flagged]