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citybeatnik
Mar 1, 2013

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Aren't Nate and his folks doing a live show tonight? Or was that last night?

What I'm trying to say is, have we seen Nate lately and are we sure he's not off in a corner somewhere and crying.

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citybeatnik
Mar 1, 2013

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How's 538 been with the down ballot stuff anyway?

citybeatnik
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Combed Thunderclap posted:

Nate started using Excel way way back when he was just a baby sabermetrics nerd and he doesn't seem interested in ever fully switching (there's a rant about it somewhere back in this thread already, actually).

My hatred has subsumed significantly since reading his mea culpa article, which is actually really good.

Then I try to listen to the 538 podcast argggggh

He's been salty on the podcasts for a while now - are you talking about the bit where he just railed against the NYT for a while during it?

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Patter Song posted:

Polling is only going to get shittier every cycle. By 2024, polls will all be "poo poo, I don't know."

One of the recent 538 podcasts touched on that a bit, I think. What with more polling companies moving to in-house stuff on account that funding from universities and newspapers are going down. Not sure if I'm remembering that right.

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anime was right posted:

if the dnc didn't abandon and mismanage the poo poo out of downticket races in favor of hillary's warchest, there would not have been nearly as much voter suppression

No, there'd be just as much. Only, you know, there'd be the machinery in place to counter it a bit.

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