From: boron_elgar@hotmail.com   
      
   On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:11:53 -0000 (UTC), Howard    
   wrote:   
      
   >Boron Elgar  wrote   
   >   
   >> On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 08:29:47 -0700 (PDT), Richard Hershberger   
   >   
   >>>It is amazing how irrelevant he became when he moved to the current   
   >>>format.  What he did well wasn't enough to sustain an independent site   
   >>>with pressure for frequent posting, so he gracefully transitioned to   
   >>>bullshitting.  It has been years since I looked at it regularly.   
   >>   
   >> Exactly.   
   >   
   >It seems increasingly clear that his success in 2012 had more to do with   
   >the absolutely awful competition he was up against in the world of   
   >political reporting, not so much in his actual smarts.   
   >   
   >I think what's sad is how little the world of political reporting has   
   >done to catch up to where he was in 2012. There are a few more polling   
   >analysts, but the overall attitude in the press is still all the   
   >analysis they need can be obtained by talking to a couple of GOP   
   >campaign strategists.   
      
      
   I seem to recall Silver as mostly sports stats before he dipped into   
   politics. Once he got into the political numbers, I became a   
   worshipper. I hung on his every word and chart. He was a breath of   
   fresh air in the middle  of all the political twaddle, and I loved   
   looking at the data outputs   
      
   It was still at the edge of the golden age of polling back then- a lot   
   of people still had landlines, nothing had shifted heavily onto the   
   net- it was all pleasing and understandable to me.   
      
   But everything has changed over these past 14-ish years and you   
   practically can't take a shit without a wi-fi enabled toilet paper   
   roller asking you to give a satisfaction rating and expectations for   
   your next wipe.   
      
   Silver made huge sums of money selling pieces of himself to large   
   corporations a couple of times, losing some of his best working   
   consultants along the way, and now he thinks his personal opinions are   
   what people crave and respect - not his numbers, but his ideas/deep   
   down feelings about society, gender, human rights and maybe a bit of   
   politics if it's Thursday and isn't raining. Trouble is, at least   
   IMHO, his ideas are biased and stupid.   
      
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