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Re:Nate Silver vs. The Betting Markets by jonknee on Tuesday November 04, 2008 @09:38AM (#353447)
He has been open with his support for Obama. But he's a numbers guy, I don't see where his math is biased. Likewise, he's a Cubs fan but his baseball research isn't slanted towards the Cubbies.

Your link just says because Nate Silver talks about Obama in his blog the site is a propaganda tool. People don't visit for the blog, they visit for the numbers and research. Personally I think it would be the other way around, if he were also a popular Obama blogger but did FiveThirtyEight anonymously that could be considered sinister (it still wouldn't be unless the model was proven wrong, but there would be a perception of deception).

I've seen him a couple times on HDNET and he's extremely clever. I'll be watching him tonight instead of the hacks they put up on the major networks.

Re:Nate Silver vs. The Betting Markets by gamble on Tuesday November 04, 2008 @06:14PM (#354012)
I find it informative to compare Silver's projections with the Real Clear Politics averages. RCP is a group project, but it's pretty clear that their editorial views skew heavily toward the conservative end of the spectrum. Assuming either is biased, I figure that Obama can't be doing any worse than RCP is projecting or much better than FiveThirtyEight.