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It's worth adding that Nate is on the record as saying he'd have voted for either Romney or Gary Johnson, if he would have voted. http://www.mentalfloss.com/bl
by showerst 14y ago
It's worth adding that Nate is on the record as saying he'd have voted for either Romney or Gary Johnson, if he would have voted.
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/150042 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/150042
- pronoiac 14y agoThat's weird - I thought I read that he was personally pulling for Obama somewhere on 538. I'll go look for that.
- pronoiac 14y agoOkay, I found the reference someone cited as "Nate Silver openly rooting for Obama". It's from March 2008, before he joined the NYTimes: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008_02_24_archive.html http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008_02_24_archive.html
- rms 14y agoI'm skeptical that that statement should be taken at face value. Nate Silver isn't the smoothest in in-person interviews.
- figure8 14y agoHere he says: "I would describe myself as being somewhere between a liberal and a Libertarian." http://m.npr.org/news/Books/162594751 http://m.npr.org/news/Books/162594751