Indiana and now West Virginia and Nebraska added to the exploded reputation of Nate Silver and his leftist crew at Fivethirtyeight.com
Who is Nate Silver? (the man who stated "Trump has a 2% chance of winning the nomination in his "6 stages of doom-Trump is doomed" prediction)
Hillaryis44 summed up Silver's history concisely
Speaking of liars and cowards, Nate Silver. Silver is the “numbers guru” who used to write for the DailyKooks (Mad Markos Moulitsas 'Daily Kos') website and trash us. Silver, in his subsequent books and writings never disclosed he got campaign data from Obama in 2008. Silver lied his way to a top column at the New York Times and now has his own website. For months Silver gave Trump single digit (2%) chances to get the nomination
Since Silver and his mate (perhaps literally) "Forecaster" Harry Enten are seen as near infallible gurus of prognostication by the leftist media it is of value to see exactly how they are doing and whether their 'reputation' is a grossly inflated one based on pure luck, insider information, and blind chance.
Here's Silver, Enten and their 'team of experts"
"Will Trump Clinch The GOP Nomination Before The Convention?"
In addition to Nate Silver’s and my estimates, we tried to include a diverse set of opinions from across the political spectrum. We also focused on analysts who have been following the delegate race closely and know the intricacies of the GOP’s delegate rules. Our panel included these people:
- Adam Geller: founder and CEO of National Research Inc. and the lead pollster for Chris Christie’s presidential campaign
- Daniel Nichanian: contributing editor to Daily Kos Elections and PhD candidate in political science at the University of Chicago.
- Henry Olsen: senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center
- Margie Omero: managing director at Purple Insights
- Patrick Ruffini: co-founder and partner at Echelon Insights and chairman and founder of Engage
- David Wasserman: House editor at the Cook Political Report and FiveThirtyEight contributor
From Utah to New York-6 prognostications in a row, they achieved a 100% failure record-not one single forecast was correct, some wildly out like New York at 71 delegates for Trump who achieved a landslide of 60% of the vote and 89 delegates.
And then the from Maryland to Indiana the next 6 guesses (for that is all they are of course) completely wrong!
So they are at least consistent 12 out of 12 wrong. Getting Delaware and Pennsylvania wrong takes some doing-but they managed it.
There are seven more to go, can they make it a grand total of 21 wrong guesses? I don't do goat entrails or other omen work, but if I did I would be confident my success rate would be better than Silver and his "experts".
Oh, and Silver's other meme is utterly exploded "Trump has won a majority of the vote only in his home state of New York.5
