>Somehow, Nate Silver got all the media attention though. Yes, somehow the young, geekily attractive popular sports author, whose blog on an extremely popular

>Somehow, Nate Silver got all the media attention though. Yes, somehow the young, geekily attractive popular sports author, whose blog on an extremely popular alternative news site grew a significant cult following, got all the mainstream media attention. It is extremely surprising that said media attention did not go to the duo of crusty, obscure, highfalutin Ivy-league academics instead. Somehow, that happened. How, we'll never know.