You Too Can Be Like Former Daily Kos Blogger Nate Silver | RedState: In other words, it is worth noting to those on the right beating up Silver that the data is shaping his model. He is not shaping the data.
But it is also worth noting that for all the super-special pride accredited to Nate Silver and his predictive powers, you too can do it with a cheap Excel plugin.
Lastly, as a number of people have noted, including Sean Davis in this piece, the big issue this year is whether or not the state polls are wrong. If they are, then Silver is wrong. If they are right, Silver is right. It’s that simple. As Sean notes about 2010