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gcomeau

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7. He's judgement neutral...

Reply to Hutzpa (Reply #4)

Thu Oct 4, 2012, 04:55 PM

Oct 2012

...in anything he writes related to the election analysis. He tends to always keep things to the numbers and things that impact the numbers.

I'm sure he has his opinions on Romney's honesty but unless they visibly begin impacting polling specifically don't expect Silver to say much about it. He clearly tries to keep all extraneous info out of his stats analysis. And it's a good thing for him to do that.

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uh oh Hutzpa Oct 2012 #33

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