Nate Silver to Joe Scarborough: Wanna Bet?

[homasse]

Nate Silver to Joe Scarborough: Wanna Bet?

Political polling guru Nate Silver is so confident in his statistical models that he just offered to bet MSNBC's Joe Scarborough $1,000 that Barack Obama will win re-election. Scarborough, you may recall, criticized Silver's math earlier this week, saying that "Anybody that thinks that this race is

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[suicida1poptart]

the media wants this race to seem incredibly close because it's the best way for them to keep people on both sides of the fence glued to the crap the put out, lbr

[pamelalillian]

yes

which is why i always side eye ppl who only rely on one news source or only american news... and don't do any research.

[celtic_thistle]

mte. When you run the cold hard numbers like Nate Silver does, it's pretty clear what's happening.

He's now got Mittens at a 1 in 5 chance of winning. Ha.

[keeperofthekeys]

unf.

[crossfire]

mte

[shortsweetcynic]

i love that tag so hard.

[bnmc2005]

Hahahahah @Scarborough.

[purplerains]

IKR

During an interview on one of the MSNBC weekend morning shows, Scarborough predicted that Obama would win...

[celtic_thistle]

She is so adorably dorky. I love it.

[purplerains]

The media knows that Nate Silver is correct.

They just want to pretend that he isn't so they can continue on with all their "exciting" coverage of this poll and that poll. Every presidential election needs to be "sooooo close!!!1"