When doing a rundown of what his model did and did not show in the weeks before the election, Nate Silver made an observation that deserves to be noticed.
In a piece about the virtues and vices of his model–it didn’t PREDICT the outcome, but the most frequent outcome it spit out turned out to be the final result–Silver inserted what he called a “mini-rant” about the reaction he got from Democrats and Republicans to his ongoing analyses.
It struck him that Republicans and Democrats took a very different approach to reading and reacting to his newsletters:
Even though our forecast was near 50/50 for almost the whole race, there were certainly periods that were relatively better and worse for Harris and Trump. Our narrative content followed accordingly, with about an even mix of newsletters that presented optimistic cases for Harris and Trump. (That was…
