Alexandra Petri: Nate Silver?s weatherman problem

Of course the Commentating Class is railing at Nate Silver.

With his popular FiveThirtyEight blog at the New York Times, using a statistical model and poll averages to predict the outcome of the election ? and resulting in a fairly steady prediction of Obama victory ? he has gotten an alarming number of backs up. Of course he has. He combines two of their greatest fears: losing their jobs and being required to do math.

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