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sideshow.me.uk - 12/8/2008
Why Nate Silver should talk to Avedon Carol before he goes on TV again
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I really felt frustrated listening to Nate Silver arguing with John Ziegler , because Nate's verbal karate just isn't that good. Ziegler's poll really wasn't a push poll in the usual sense, and Silver would have been best served to say that no, it may have been worse - it was a poll that treated ...
crooksandliars.com - 12/8/2008
Nate Silver vs. John Ziegler, Round 2
— crooksandliars.com — Last time we checked in with Nate, he was busy getting cursed at by wingnut radio talk... show host and "documentary filmmaker" John Ziegler for daring to question a poll Ziegler commissioned that purportedly "proved" that Obama voters were somehow ... (more) Nate Silver vs. John Ziegler, Round 2

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N/A — Yeah, what she said: Oh, there’s no question that the media was biased toward Obama before the end of the campaign, f’sure, but they started off biased toward McCain and they never, ever stopped promoting McCain’s talking points and letting his PR team drive the news. The fact that Obama-voters were not as alert to far right-wing media spin points that were mostly distortions or falsehoods doesn’t mean the media was unfairly biased toward Obama, it means they were such crappy spin-points ...

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