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Today’s well-deserved Molière Celebration goes to Nate Silver, founder of the 538 organization, for telling it like it is!
We’re sitting out here in the general public, as long and as far as we are able to stomach the bogus reports of tight races in nearly every jurisdiction, when reason tells us that it just can’t be so.
“Blue Wall” states and “Red Wall” states — it’s enough to make us think we’d been trapped in an episode of The Matrix or Dr. Who.
Yes, we know — it sells newspapers, and that would be enough to explain the continued hype of excitement generated by the resorts of the presidential race being so close.
Let’s not forget that the closer the race, the more money the candidates and their surrogates spend on media — reportedly something over $10 BILLION during this election season!
As Lou Costello asked Bud Abbott: “At the end of the week, when they pay the first baseman [translation: “media”] who gets the money?” And just like today the answer is “Every dollar of it!”
In a manner similar to the GenXers who admitted that they lie to pollsters (and to whom we issued a joint Citation last week), Nate Silver outing the “paid to play” pollsters feeds the new narrative: that this race isn’t even close!
Direct quotes from Silver:
“I kind of trust pollsters less,” Silver said on his “Risky Business” podcast. “They all, every time a pollster [says] ‘Oh, every state is just plus-one, every single state’s a tie,’ no! You’re [expletive] herding! You’re cheating! You’re cheating!
“Your numbers aren’t all going to come out at exactly one-point leads when you’re sampling 800 people over dozens of surveys. You are lying! You’re putting your [expletive] finger on the scale!”
Meanwhile, Silver has Trump ahead 55% to 45% nationally. He added that each of the key seven swing states were polling within 2 percentage points
“It doesn’t take a genius to know that if every swing state is a tie, that the overall forecast is a tie,” he said.
With only a few days left before the election, and assuming that the votes are all in and counted promptly, we won’t have long to wait to find out who’s got which thumb on which scale.
Stay tuned!